Cornelius Gallus
1st century BC Roman poet, orator and politician
- Lived
- 68 BC–25 BC
- Country
- Ancient Rome
Updated September 2026
About Cornelius Gallus
Gaius Cornelius Gallus was a Roman poet, orator, politician and military commander, at one time appointed by the Emperor Augustus as prefect of Roman Egypt. Only nine lines of his poetry are extant today, but he was much read in antiquity; Ovid considered him one of the major Latin poets of his age.
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