Cornelius Nepos (c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer.
Biography
Nepos's Cisalpine birth is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him Padi accola ("a dweller on the River Po", Naturalis historia III.127). He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona, or at Ticinum (modern Pavia).
He was a friend of Catullus, who dedicates his poems to him (I.3), Cicero and Titus Pomponius Atticus. Eusebius places him in the fourth year of the reign of Augustus, which is supposed to be when he began to attract critical acclaim by his writing. Pliny the Elder notes he died in the reign of Augustus (Natural History IX.39, X.23).
