Valgius Rufus
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Gaius Valgius Rufus was a Roman senator, and a contemporary of Horace and Maecenas. He succeeded Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus as suffect consul upon the latter's death in 12 BC. Rufus is best known as a writer of elegies and epigrams, and his contemporaries believed him capable of great things in epic writing. The author of the panegyric on Messalla Corvinus compared Rufus as the equal of Homer.
Rufus did not confine himself to poetry. He discussed grammatical questions by correspondence, translated the rhetorical manual of his teacher Apollodorus of Pergamon, and began a treatise on medicinal plants, dedicated to Augustus. Horace addressed to him the ninth ode of the second book of his poems.
Further reading
- Jonathan August Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum...Vitae et Carminum Reliquiae (1830)
- Robert Unger, (1848)
- Kronenberg, L. (2018). . Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 179–206.
- Kronenberg, L. (2019). Classical World, 112(2), 57–69.
- Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, History of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 241
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| Preceded byMarcus Valerius Messalla Appianus and Publius Sulpicius Quiriniusas ordinary consuls | Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 12 BC | Succeeded byGaius Caninius Rebilus and Lucius Volusius Saturninusas suffect consuls |