| LC control no. | n 85379942 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gallus, Gaius Cornelius, 69 B.C.?-26 B.C. |
| Variant(s) | Gallo, Cornelio, 69 B.C.?-26 B.C. Gallus, C. Cornelius, 69 B.C.?-26 B.C. Gallus, Caius Cornelius, 69 B.C.?-26 B.C. Gallus, Cornelius, 69 B.C.?-26 B.C. Gallus, Gaius Cornelius, 69?-26 B.C. |
| Birth date | -0069? |
| Death date | -0026 |
| Place of birth | Fréjus |
| Place of death | Rome |
| Profession or occupation | Critics Authors Prefects (Rome) |
| Found in | Cornelio Gallo e l'elegia ellenistico-romana, c1984: t.p. (Cornelio Gallo) p. 9 (Caius Cornelius Gallus) Enc. Brit. (Gallus, Gaius Cornelius, c. 70-26 B.C., Roman soldier and poet) Enc. Amer. (Gallus, Gaius Cornelius, c. 69-26 B.C.) Oxford classical dict., 1970 (Gallus, Gaius Cornelius, b. c. 69 B.C.; d. 26 B.C.) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Gallus, C. Cornelius) nuc89-92906: The Impotent lover [MI] 1689 (hdg. on LU rept.: Gallus, Gaius Cornelius, 69?-26 B.C.; usage: Cornelius Gallus) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Gallus, Gaius Cornelius; Roman writer and prefect in Egypt, literary scholar; born in 0069 B.C.E. in Fréjus, in present-day France; first political appointment to the position of praefectumfabrum, supervisor of the corps of engineers, in Cyrenaica; first individual to assume the position of praefectus Alexandrae et Aegypti, who immediately decorated a square in Alexandria, the Egyptian capital, with an obelisk; recalled to Rome on a trial managed by the senate and was accused both of lésemajesté (treason against the reigning sovereign), and of conspiring against Augustus; condemned to exile and expropriation of property, he preferred to die by suicide; died in 0026 B.C.E. in Rome) |
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