Background
Gaius Valgius Rufus was born c. 65 BC.
Gaius Valgius Rufus was born c. 65 BC.
He was known as a writer of elegies and epigrams, and his contemporaries believed him capable of great things in epic. Rufus did not, however, confine himself to poetry. He discussed grammatical questions by correspondence, translated the rhetorical manual of his teacher Apollodorus of Pergamum, and began a treatise on medicinal plants, dedicated to Augustus. Horace addressed to him the ninth ode of the second book.
