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Name: Nepos
Birth Date: c. 100 B.C.
Death Date: c. 27 B.C.
Nationality: Roman
Gender: Male

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Cornelius Nepos is known mainly as the founder of the technique of parallel biography whose innovative De viris illustribus (On Famous Men, 35-34 B.C.) launched the literary genre of political biography at Rome and paved the way for the great...


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Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than...


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Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-24 BC) was a Roman biographer. Supposedly he was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona. His Gallic origin is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him Padi accola ('a dweller on the River Po,...


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