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CORNELIUS NEPOS (c. 99–24 B.C.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 385 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNELIUS See also:NEPOS (c. 99–24 B.C.)  , See also:Roman historian, friend of See also:Catullus, See also:Cicero andAtticus, was See also:born in Upper See also:Italy (perhaps at See also:Verona or See also:Ticinum) . He wrote: Chronica, an See also:epitome of universal See also:history; Exempla, a collection of anecdotes after the See also:style of See also:Valerius See also:Maximus; letters to Cicero; lives of See also:Cato the See also:elder and Cicero; and De viris illustribus, parallel lives of distinguished See also:Romans and foreigners, in sixteen books . One See also:section of this voluminous See also:work (De excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentiurn, more commonly known as Vitae excellentium imperatorum) and the See also:biographies of Cato and See also:Atticus from another (De Latinis historicis),have been preserved . Erotic poems and a See also:geographical See also:treatise are also attributed to him . See also:Nepos is not altogether happy in the subjects of his biographies, and he writes rather as a panegyrist than as a biographer, although he can rebuke his own countrymen on occasion . The Lives contain See also:Editions of the Lives (especially selections) are extremely numerous; See also:text by E . O . Winstedt (See also:Oxford, 1904), C . L . See also:Roth (1881), C . G . See also:Cobet (1881), C .

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Halm and A . See also:Fleckeisen (1889), with See also:lexicon for school use; with notes, 0 . See also:Browning and W . R . Inge (1888), J . C . Rolfe (U.S . 1894), A . Weidner and J . See also:Schmidt (1902), C . Erbe (1892), C . Nipperdey and B .

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Lupus (ed. maj., 1879, school ed., 1895), J . Siebelis and O . Stange (1897) .

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