Cornelius Nepos
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Cornelii Nepos
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The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman biographer cited as testifying to Eudoxus's ancient voyage from Arabia to Gades.
Etiam Arabibus, si verum est, quod Cornelius Nepos testatus est, Eudoxum quendam sua aetate cum Lathyrum Regem Alexandriae fugeret, Arabico sinu egressum Gades usque pervectum.
Also the Arabians knew those seas, if the testimony of Cornelius Nepos is to be believed, because he says that in his own day a certain Eudoxus, fleeing from Lathyrus, king of Alexandria, sailed from the Arabian gulf and finally reached Cadiz.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman biographer cited corroborating a judgment on Spartan kingship.
Thus after the time of Lycurgus, and more particularly after the institutionof the Ephori, the kings of the Lacedaemonians are said by Polybius, Plutarch, and Cornelius Nepos, to have been Kings more in name than in reality.
Ad Nationes
Roman biographer cited as a historical source on Saturn.
We read it in Cassius Severus, in the Cornelii Nepos and Tacitus, among the Greeks too in Diodorus, and whoever else have collected the hoary records of antiquity.
Apologeticum
Roman biographer cited as a chronicler of antiquities.
Saturn, then — so far as letters teach, neither Diodorus the Greek nor Thallus, neither Cassius Severus nor Cornelius Nepos, nor any chronicler of antiquities of this kind, has set forth as anything but a man;