Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Cornelius Nepos
Born: 100 BC
Died: 27 BC (aged 73)
Bio: Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona.
Known for:
- Three lives : Alcibiades, Dion, Atticus
- The lives of Cornelius Nepos
- Vitae excellentium imperatorum