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RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS , Lain poet, friend of Horace and Maecenas
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great
panegyric
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Homer . Rufus did not, however, confine himself to poetry. He discussed grammatical questions by correspondence, translated the rhetorical manual
plants
Augustus
Horace addressed to him theninth ode of the second book. Fragments in R. Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum Vitae et Carminum Reliquiae (183o) ; R. Unger, De C. Valgii Rufi Poematis (1848) ; 0. Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung (1889), ii. ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (1899), ii. 1; Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 241. End of Article: RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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