Quote of the day
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
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