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OPPIUS, GAIUS

OPPIUS, See also:
GAIUS
GAIUS , an intimate friend of See also:

JULIUS

Julius See also:

Caesar. He managed the See also:

DICTATOR (from the Lat. dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak)

dictator's private affairs during his See also:

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence from See also:

Rome, and, together with L. See also:

Cornelius See also:

BALBUS

Balbus, exercised considerable See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence in the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city. According to Suetonius (Caesar, 56), many authorities considered Oppius to have written the histories of the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish, See also:

AFRICAN

African and Alexandrian See also:

WARS

wars which are printed among the See also:

WORKS

works of Caesar. It is now generally held that he may possibly be the author of the last (although the claims of See also:

HIRTIUS, AULUS (c. 90-43 B.C.)

Hirtius are considered stronger), but certainly not of the two first, although See also:

Niebuhr confidently assigned the Bellum Africanum to him; the writer of these took an actual See also:

PART

part in the wars they described, whereas Oppius was in Rome at the See also:

time. He also wrote a See also:

LIFE

life of Caesar and the See also:

elder Scipio. For a discussion of the whole question, see M. Schanz, Geschichte der rSmischen Literatur, pt. i. p. 210 (2nd ed., 1898) ; See also:

TEUFFEL, WILHELM SIEGMUND (1820–1878)

Teuffel-See also:

SCHWABE, SAMUEL HEINRICH (1789–1875)

Schwabe, Hist. of See also:

ROMAN

Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 197; see also See also:

CICERO

Cicero, Letters, ed. See also:

Tyrrell and See also:

PURSER

Purser, iv. introd. p. 69.

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