GALLUS, CORNELIUS (c. 70-26 B.C.), Roman poet, orator and politician, was born of humble parents at Forum Iulii (Frejus). At an early age he removed to Rome, where he was taught by the same master as Virgil and Varius Rufus. Virgil, who dedicated one of his eclogues (x.) to him, was much indebted to the influence of Gallus for the restoration of his estate. Noth ing by him has survived ; the fragments of the four poems at tributed to him (first published by Aldus Manutius in 1590 and printed in A. Riese's Anthologia Latina, 1869) are generally regarded as a forgery.
See C. Volker, De C. Galli vita et scriptis (1840-44) ; A. Nicolas, De la vie et des ouvrages de C. Gallus (1851) , an exhaustive mono graph. An inscription found at Philae (published 1896) records the Egyptian exploits; see M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, and Plessis, Poesie latine (19o9) . See also R. S. Conway, New Studies of a Great Inheritance (1923), The Fall of Gallus.