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... arida modo pumice expolitum? Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas...


from N.S.Gill: [this is certainly] Cornelius Nepos, who probably lived from around 100 to 24 B.C., is our first surviving Latin biographer. A contemporary of Cicero, Catullus, and Augustus, Nepos wrote erotic poems, a Chronica (an epitome of history), Exempla (anecdotes), a Life of Cato, a Life of Cicero, a treatise on geography, at least 16 books of De viris illustribus (On Famous men), and De excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium aka Vitae excellentium imperatorum (On Eminent Foreign Leaders ). The last survives and fragments of others remain. Nepos, who is thought to have come from Cisalpine Gaul [see map] to Rome, wrote in an easy style of Latin.


 
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