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RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 821 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUFUS, See also:GAIUS VALGIUS , Lain poet, friend of See also:Horace and See also:Maecenas, and See also:consul in 12 B.C. He was known as a writer of elegies and epigrams, and his contemporaries believed him capable of See also:great things in epic. The author of the See also:panegyric on Messalla declares Rufus to be the only poet fitted to be the great See also:man's See also:Homer. Rufus did not, however, confine himself to See also:poetry. He discussed grammatical questions by See also:correspondence, translated the rhetorical See also:manual of his teacher See also:Apollodorus of See also:Pergamum, and began a See also:treatise on medicinal See also:plants, dedicated to See also:Augustus. Horace addressed to him the ninth See also:ode of the second See also:book. Fragments in R. Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum Vitae et Carminum Reliquiae (183o) ; R. Unger, De C. Valgii Rufi Poematis (1848) ; 0. See also:Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung (1889), ii. ; M.

Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (1899), ii. 1; See also:

Teuffel, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 241.

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