biography
pronunciation:
[neepos]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.99–25 BC)
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| biography:
| Roman historian, a native of Pavia or Hostilia. He wrote a lost universal history in three books (Chronica), and a series of Lives of Famous Men (De viris illustribus), of which only 25 (mainly Greek warriors and statesmen) survive - untrustworthy, but written in a clear and elegant style. He also wrote love poems and a book of anecdotes (Exempla), and lives of the elder Cato, Atticus, and Thrasybulus. |
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