See also:

• GAIUS

GAIUS VALGIUS See also:

• GAIUS VALGIUS RUFUS
• RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

RUFUS  , Lain poet, friend of See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace and See also:

• MAECENAS, GAIUS (CILNIUS)

Maecenas, and See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul in 12 B.C . He was known as a writer of elegies and epigrams, and his contemporaries believed him capable of See also:

• GREAT

great things in epic . The author of the See also:

• PANEGYRIC

panegyric on Messalla declares See also:

• RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS
• RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

Rufus to be the only poet fitted to be the great See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man's See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer . Rufus did not, however, confine himself to See also:

• POETRY

poetry . He discussed grammatical questions by See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence, translated the rhetorical See also:

• MANUAL

manual of his teacher See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus of See also:

• PERGAMUM, or PERGAMTS (mod. Bergama)

Pergamum, and began a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on medicinal See also:

• PLANTS

plants, dedicated to See also:

• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus . Horace addressed to him the ninth See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode of the second See also:

• BOOK

book . Fragments in R . Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum Vitae et Carminum Reliquiae (183o) ; R . Unger, De C . Valgii Rufi Poematis (1848) ; 0 . See also:

• RIBBECK, JOHANN CARL OTTO (1827-1898)

Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung (1889), ii . ; M .

Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (1899), ii . 1; See also:

• TEUFFEL, WILHELM SIEGMUND (1820–1878)

Teuffel, Hist. of See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 241 .