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Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-2 dozen) was the Roman biographer. Purportedly he was innate at Hostilithe, a village within Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona. His Gallic origin is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him Padi accola ('a denizen on the Flow of any stream Po, Natural History III.22). He was the friend of Catullus, who dedicates his verse form to him (I personally.Tercet), Cicero and Atticus. Eusebius places him in the fourth season of the reign of Augustus, which is supposed to be once he began to attract critical eclat by his writing. Pliny the Elder notes he died in the reign of Augustus (Natural History IX.39, X.23). Works Chronica, to which Catullus seems to allude in his dedication to Nepos. Ausonius also mentions it in his sixteenth Epistle to Probus, when does Aulus Gellius in the Noctes Atticae (XVII.Twenty-one). These are thought to use been written around ternary books. Exemplorum libri, of which Charisius cites the 2nd book, & Aulus Gellius the fifth (VII.Eighteen). De Viris Illustribus, from either which Aulus Gellius draws an anecdote of Cato (IX.Octad). De Vita Ciceronis. Aulus Gellius corrects an error in this operate (Fifteen.Xxviii). Epistulae ad Ciceronem, an extract of which lives within Lactantius (Divinarum Institutionem Libri Septem III.15). These are undecipherable whether it were ever formally published. Pliny the Younger mentions verse written by Nepos, and within his have Life of Dion Nepos himself refers to the function of his have authorship, De Historicis. He likewise mentions a yearn Life of Cato at a prevent of the extant Life of Cato, written at the asking of Atticus. His exclusively living operate is the Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, which appeared in the reign of Theodosius I, as the operate of the syntactician Amelius Probus, world health organization presented it to the emperor by having a dedication around Latin verse. He claims it to own been a operate of his mother or even father (a manuscripts diverge) & his grandpa. Despite a visible questions (like how come is the prolusion addressed to individual known as Atticus when the function was purportedly dedicated to Theodosius?), there are no of these seemed to stand doubted Probus' authorship. Finally Peter Cornerus discovered in the manuscript of Cicero's letters the life story of Cato & Atticus. He added a babies to a more existent life story, despite the fact that the writer speaks of himself as a coeval & friend of Atticus, and that a manuscript wore a running E libro posteriore Cornelii Nepotis ('from either a previous book of Cornelius Nepos'). At long last Dionysius Lambinus' editiin of 1569 bore a comment demonstrating on stylistic evidence that the function must use been of Nepos alone, & non Aemilius Probus. This look at has been tempered by supplementary recent scholarship, which agrees by having Lambinus that it is a act of Nepos, however that Probus probably abridged a life after he added a verse dedication. A Life of Atticus, notwithstanding, is considered to exist as a exclusive composition of Nepos.
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