Tibullus
ALBIUS, a Roman elegiac poet; born presumably in Gabii, about 54 B. C. His prænomen and parentage are unknown, though he was certainly born to a considerable estate. His father seems to have died early, but his ALBIUS TIBULLUS mother and sister survived him. While still a youth he acquired the friendship of the orator, poet, and statesman, M.
Valerius Messala, on whose staff he was commissioned by Augustus, 30 B. C., to crush a revolt in Aquitania. In this campaign the poet displayed capacity enough to win him distinction and decorations, but he disliked a soldier's life and spent his time after the war in Roman society and in retirement at Pedum. He fell in love with Plania, whose husband was on service in Cilicia. Under the sobriquet of Delia she is the heroine of his first book of elegies, but his TIBULLUS In his by Nemesis days, and the second 188. that he was not her only lover. In his one species, ranging from Southern Eufashionable courtesan, with many other devotion did not survive the discovery this inamorata being a acter, amiable, part with the picture that poet gives of him, pacing pensively his woodland walks ble, generous, loya personal beauty, and with all the caloyal to his Albius of Horace, but we are loath to of a magnificent elegy by Ovid. Doubt has been thrown on his identity with the at Pedum, blessed with fortune, with pacities of refined enjoyment. His char- Rome, and years afterw Tibullus died in 19 B. c., immediately after Vergil, universally deplored in afterward the subject "most musical, most melancholy," by their limpid clearness and their unaffected is yet memorable for the 11 poems on friends, is reflected in his poems, which, ly, even in part, be considered as his, while the fourth, also by another hand, is yet memorable for the 11 poems on Roman lady's passionate outburst in while the fourth, also by another hand, finish still justify Quintilian in placing him at the head of Roman elegy properly so called. The third book can hardly, even in part, be considered as his, the loves of Sulpicia and Cerinthus-Sulverse.
Paris in 1800. He wrote: "Memoirs of a Young Priest, Collected and Published by a Layman" (1824); "Statistical Accounts of the French Colonies" (1837); He died in Paris, May 10, 1871. "Two Convents in Medieval Times: The Abbey of St. Gildas and the Paraclete in the Time of Abelard and Heloise" (1851). a French miscellaneous writer; born in