Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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