Talk:Cornelius Gallus

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[edit] Merge needed

There is another article of this very person:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Cornelius_Gallus

Chris Weimer 08:28, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Merged.--Aldux 11:32, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cornelius Gallus and His Place of Birth

Cornelius Gallus . . . was born of humble parents at Forum Julii (Fréjus) in Gaul.

It should be noted that R. Syme was first to suggest Fréjus as the likely birthplace of Cornelius Gallus in a 1938 article, "The Origin of Cornelius Gallus," CQ 32.39-44, and that his speculation was at least initially based on Jerome's statement that Gallus was a Foroiuliensis. In 1963, however, F. Magi published a recently discovered epigraph, showing that Gallus, under the title of Octavian's praefectus fabrum, had established a Forum Iulii in Egypt. [Magi, F. (1963) "Le iscrizioni recentemente scoperte sull' obelisco Vaticano," Studi Romani 11.50-6. See, also, Salvaterra, C. (1987) "Forum Iulium nell' iscrizione di C. Cornelio Gallo sull' obelisco Vaticano," Aegyptus 67.171-81; Manzoni, G. E. (1995) Foroiuliensis poeta. Vita e poesia di Cornelio Gallo. Milan.] The epigraphic evidence suggests that Jerome had confused Gallus' birthplace with the Forum Iulii, which Gallus had himself established in Egypt. As a consequence, Syme's hypothesis that Fréjus was the birthplace of Cornelius Gallus is no longer sustainable. It should be noted also that any mention of any Forum Iulii at the time of Gallus' birth would actually be anachronistic, since the term had not come into use until 60 BC. This does not, however, exclude the possibility that a Forum Iulii would have replaced an older location's name, as Manzoni has shown in the article stated above. But, to date, we have no conclusive evidence telling us where Cornelius Gallus was born.

Mfletcher7202 (talk) 06:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)