biography
| name: |
Gallus, Gaius Cornelius
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pronunciation:
[galus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.70–26 BC)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Forum Julii (now Fréjus) in Gaul. He lived in Rome in intimate friendship with Virgil and Ovid, and was appointed prefect of Egypt by Augustus, but he fell into disfavour, and after being banished he committed suicide. From his four books of elegies upon his mistress ‘Lycoris’ (the actress Cyntheris), he is considered the founder of the Roman elegy. Only a few fragments of his work are extant. |
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