Cornelius Gallus
69 BC –26 BC
Poet, Politician, Orator, Writer, Military personnel, Epigrammatist
Lived 43 years
- Born in
- Roman Empire
Gaius Cornelius Gallus (c. 70 – 26 BC) was a Roman poet, orator, politician and military commander, at one time appointed by the Emperor Augustus as prefect of Roman Egypt. Only nine lines of his poetry are extant today, but he was much read in antiquity; Ovid considered him one of the major Latin poets of his age.
Notable works: elegia
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