Cornelius Nepos
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Cornelius Nepos
（The Loeb classical library, 467）
Harvard University Press , W. Heinemann, 1984
Separate ed
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- : uk
- Other Title
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Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium
Available at 107 libraries
Note
Latin text and parallel English translation on opposite pages
First ed. (with Florus) published in 1929
Publisher's name "Heinemann" not found in 1994 printing
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cornelius Nepos was born in Cisalpine Gaul but lived in Rome and was a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. Most of his writings, which included poems, moral examples from history, a chronological sketch of general history, a geographical work, Lives of Cato the Elder and Cicero, and other biographies, are lost. Extant is a portion of his 'De Viris Illustribus': (i) part of his parallel lives of Roman and non-Roman famous men, namely the portion containing lives of non-Roman generals (all Greeks except three) and a chapter on kings; and (ii) two lives from the class of historians. The lives are short popular biographies of various kinds, written in a usually plain readable style, of value today because of Nepos's use of many good sources.
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