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CORNELIUS GALLUS (c. 70-26 B.C.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 426 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNELIUS See also:GALLUS (c. 70-26 B.C.)  , See also:Roman poet, orator and politician, was See also:born of humble parents at See also:Forum Julii (See also:Frejus) in See also:Gaul .. At an See also:early See also:age he removed to See also:Rome, where he was taught by the same See also:master, as See also:Virgil and Varius See also:Rufus . Virgil, who dedicated one of his eclogues (x.) to him, was in See also:great measure indebted to the See also:influence of See also:Gallus for the restoration of his See also:estate . In See also:political See also:life Gallus espoused the cause of Octavianus, and as a See also:reward for his services was made See also:praefect of See also:Egypt (Suetonius, See also:Augustus, 66) . His conduct in this position after-wards brought him into disgrace with the See also:emperor, and having been deprived of his estates and sentenced to banishment, he put an end to his life (Dio See also:Cassius liii . 23) . Gallus enjoyed a high reputation among his contemporaries as a See also:man of See also:intellect, and See also:Ovid (Tristia, iv. so) considered him the first of the elegiac poets of Rome . He wrote four books of elegies chiefly on his See also:mistress Lycoris (a poetical name for Cytheris, a notorious actress), in which he took for his See also:model See also:Euphorion of See also:Chalcis (q.v.); he also translated some of this author's See also:works into Latin . Nothing by him has survived; the fragments of the four poems attributed to him (first published by Aldus See also:Manutius in 1590 and printed in A . Riese's Anthologia See also:Latina, 1869) are generally regarded as a See also:forgery . See C . Volker, De C .

Galli vita et scriptis (1840-1844) ; A . See also:

Nicolas, De la See also:vie et See also:des ouvrages de C . Gallus (1851), an exhaustive monograph . An inscription found at See also:Philae (published 1896) records the See also:Egyptian exploits; see M . Schanz, Geschichte der rOmischen Litteratur, and Plessis, Poesie latine (1909) .

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