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See also: Maecenas, and See also: consul in 12 B.C
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He was known as a writer of elegies and epigrams, and his contemporaries believed him capable of See also: great things in epic
.
The author of the See also: panegyric on Messalla declares Rufus to be the only poet fitted to be the great See also: man's See also: Homer
.
Rufus did not, however, confine himself to See also: poetry
.
He discussed grammatical questions by See also: correspondence, translated the rhetorical See also: manual of his teacher See also: Apollodorus of See also: Pergamum, and began a See also: treatise on medicinal See also: plants, dedicated to See also: Augustus
.
Horace addressed to him the
ninth ode of the second See also: book
.
Fragments in R
.
Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum Vitae et Carminum Reliquiae (183o) ; R
.
Unger, De C
.
Valgii Rufi Poematis (1848) ; 0
.
Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung (1889), ii
.
; M
.
Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (1899), ii . 1; Teuffel, Hist. ofSee also: Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 241
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