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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS
Platnauer, M., Latin elegiac verse. A study of the metrical uses of Tibullus, Propertius
and Ovid (Cambridge 1951).
Ross, D. O., Backgrounds to Augustan poetry: Gallus, elegy and Rome (Cambridge
1975)-
Sellar, W. Y., Horace and the elegiac poets; 2nd ed. (London 1899).
Stroh, W., Die romische Liebeselegie als werbende Dichtung (Amsterdam 1971).
Sullivan, J. P. (ed.), Elegy and lyric (London 1962).
Wilkinson, L. P., Golden Latin artistry (Cambridge 1963).
Williams, G., Tradition and originality in Roman poetry (Oxford 1968).
GALLUS, GAIUS CORNELIUS
LIFE
b. 70/69 B.C. at Forum Iulii (mod. Frejus) in Gaul, of humble birth; later rose to
equestrian rank. Educ. at Rome by same teachers as Virgil, thenceforth a close friend.
Fought in Civil War on Octavian's side from 43 B.C. to Actium; appointed first prefect
of Egypt 30 B.C. Vaunted his achievements in an inscription {ILS 8995), fell into disgrace
and committed suicide 26 B.C. Sources: Jerome, Chron. (birth); Probus, Thilo-
Hagen in. 2.328 (education); Suet. Aug. 66, Dio Cass. 53.23.5ff. (military career and
death). See also Ovid, Am. ^.^.6^{.y Trist. 2.445^ On his birthplace and background
see R. Syme, C.Q. 32 (1938) 39IF.; on the inscription E. Hartman, Gymnasium 72
(1965) 1-8, and H. Volkmann, ibid. 328-30.
WORKS
Four books of elegies, of which one pentameter (JFPL 99) and some ten other lines
survive, die latter first pubd by R. D. Anderson, P. J. Parsons, R. G. M. Nisbet,
'Elegiacs by Gallus from Qasr Ibrim', J.R.S. 69 (1979) 125—55. Cf. Prop. 2.34-9if.,
Ovid, Am. 1.15.30, Ars Am. 3.537, Mart. 8.73.6. Some lines echoed in Virg. Eel. 10
(Serv. ad loc.~); on G.'s relation to Virgil see F. Skutsch, Aus Vergils Fruh^eit (Leipzig
1901); idem, Gallus und Vergil (Leipzig 1906); R. Coleman, 'Gallus, the Bucolics, and
the ending of the fourth Georgic', A./.PA. 83 (1962) 55-71.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
STUDIES: E. Breguet, 'Les elegies de Gallus', R.E.L. 26 (1948) 204-14; Bardon
n 34—44; J.-P. Boucher, Caius Cornelius Gallus (Paris 1966); indexes to Ross and
Stroh under General works above.
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