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Cornelius Nepos: On Great Generals. On Historians. (Loeb Classical Library No. 467)

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Just to clarify: if you get the Loeb Classical Library edition, you will indeed get a translation along with the Latin original. The first reviewer was looking at a different edition of Nepos.

Cornelius Nepos produced a considerable literary output: history, geography, poetry, and other works including biographies of famous men. The only surviving examples of his work are a few biographies from his work "De Viris Illustribus," which he apparently modeled after Plutarch's "Lives."

The surviving pieces consist of an introduction, several biographies of non-Roman generals, and two biographies of Roman historians. The bios are brief, anecdotal, and entertaining. They probably have little in the way of historical value, but they are nonetheless worth reading.