Ti-bul'lus, [Fr. Tibulle, te'bul'; Ger. Tibull,
te-bdol'; It. Tibullo, te-bool'lo,] (Albius,) a
distinguished
Roman elegiac poet of the Augustan age, was
bom in Italy about 55 B.C. He was a son of a knight,
(eques,) from whom he inherited an estate between Tibur
and Praeneste. This estate was confiscated in the civil
war, but he recovered a part o...
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Albius Tibullus (ca. 55-19 BC) was a Latin poet and writer of
elegies. Little is known about his life. His first and second
books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to
Tibullus are of questionable origins. There are only a few
references to him in later writers and a short Life of
doubtful authority. His praenomen is not known, ...
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a Roman elegiac poet of equestrian family. The date of his birth is uncertain, but he died young, soon after
Vergil. His birth is therefore placed by conjecture B.C. 54, and his death B.C. 19. Of his youth and education
absolutely nothing is known. The estate belonging to the equestrian ancestors of Tibullus was at Pedum, between
Tibur and Praen...
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