Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
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