Cornelius Gallus

thumb| Gaius Cornelius Gallus (c. 70 – 26 BC) 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. Quotes about Gallus Cornelius Callus, the friend of Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, and Catullus, and who, according to Pliny, died the most delightful of deaths, by expiring in the embraces of the fondest object of his affections, was solely indebted for the delicious transports he enjoyed with her to the scourge with which her severe father chastised her for the faults that originated in too warm a temperament, a punishment which, instead of counteracting, furthered the wishes of the voluptuous Roman. John Davenport, Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs (London, 1869), p. 115. See also: Marcus Ofilius Hilarus Externa links Category:BCE births Category:BCE deaths Category:Poets from Rome