Gallus

See: Alec try on .――A general of Otho, . Plutarch. ――A lieutenant of Sylla.――An officer of Marcus Antony, . ――Caius, a friend of the great African us, famous for his knowledge of astronomy, and his exact calculation of eclipses. Cicero , de Senectute .――Ælius, the third governor of Egypt in the age of August us.――Cornel i us, a Roman knight, who rendered himself famous by his poetical, as well as military talents. He was pa ionately fond of the slave Lycoris, or Cytheris, and celebrated her beauty in his poetry. She proved ungrateful, and forsook him to follow Marcus Antony, which gave occasion to Virgil to write his tenth eclogue. Gallus, as well as the other poets of his age, was in the favour of August us, by whom he was appointed over Egypt. He became forgetful of the favours he received; he pillaged the province, and even conspired against his benefactor, according to some accounts, for which he was banished by the emperor. This disgrace operated so powerfully upon him, that he killed himself in despair, A.D. 26. Some few fragments remain of his poetry, and it seems that he particularly excelled in elegiac compositions. It is said that Virgil wrote a eulogium on his poetical friend, and inserted it at the end of his Georgics; but that he totally suppre ed it, for fear of offending his imperial patron, of whose favours Gallus had shown himself so undeserving, and instead of that he substituted the beautiful episode about Aristæus and Eurydice. This eulogium, according to some, was suppre ed at the particular desire of August us. Quintilian , bk. 10 , ch. 8 .— Virgil , Eclogues , poems 6 & 10.— Ovid , Ars Am at or i a , bk. 3 , poem 15, li. 29 .――Vibius Gallus, a celebrated orator of Gaul in the age of August us, of whose orations Seneca has preserved some fragments.――A Roman who a a inated Decius the emperor, and raised himself to the throne. He showed himself indolent and cruel, and beheld with the greatest indifference the revolt of his provinces, and the invasion of his empire, by the barbarians. He was at last a a inated by his soldiers, A.D. 253.――Flavius Claudius Constant in us, a brother of the emperor Julian, raised to the imperial throne under the title of Cæsar, by Constant i us his relation. He conspired against his benefactor, and was publicly condemned to be beheaded, A.D. 354.――A small river of Phrygia, whose waters were said to be very efficacious, if drunk in moderation, in curing madne . Pliny , bk. 32 , ch. 2 .— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 4 , li. 361 .