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Nepos (Nepos)

Cornelius Nepos wrote short lives of famous commanders. The sentences are simpler than Livy or Tacitus, so he is often a first biographer.

Grades 6–8. Authors and genres.

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Biography is the genre: one life, told in brief.

Latin words that go with this card: dux, vita.

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