We learn from Ovid that Propertius was his senior, but also his friend and companion; and that he was third in the sequence of elegiac poets, following Gallus, who was born in 69 B.C., and Tibullus, and immediately preceding Ovid himself, who was born in 43 B.C. We shall not then be far wrong in supposing that he was born about 50 B.C. His early life was full of misfortune. [Please select]
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"Gallus, too, seemed to me to be intentionally prolonging the conversation." [Please select]
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‘It’s what you’ll come to before long, ye young hang-gallus,’ says she. [Please select]
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Trebius Gallus to the Curiosolitæ, and Quintus Velanius, with T. [Please select]
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Cato, by Favonius, and by two other tribunes of the people, Ateius and Aquilius Gallus. [Please select]
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Aquilius Gallus, adherents of the party of the nobles, opposed it. [Please select]
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For the eggs of Gallus bankiva see Blyth in 'Annals and Mag.' [Please select]
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