Nepos
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Cicero had not only predicted what happened in his own times, but also what occurred long after, according to the testimony of Cornelius Nepos.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
These prologues were among the original sources of Suetonius: but he quotes or refers to the works of various grammarians and antiquarians—Porcius Licinus, Volcatius Sedigitus, Santra, Nepos, Fenestella, Q. Cosconius—as his authorities.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
In the Ciceronian Age, Varro wrote several books on literary history and the earlier poets; and Cornelius Nepos included in his Biographies the lives of men of letters, among others of his own contemporary, Atticus.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
When about six years old, Alfieri was placed under the care of a priest called Don Ivaldi, who taught him writing, arithmetic, Cornelius Nepos, and Phædrus.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
Among his friends, he ranked not only most men of pleasure and fashion in Rome, but many of her eminent literary and political characters, as Cornelius Nepos, Cicero, and Asinius Pollio.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
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