Si tamen e nobis aliquid nisi nomen et umbra
Restat, in Elysia valle Tibullus erit.
.....
Ossa quieta, precor, tuta requiescite in urna,
Et sit humus cineri non onerosa tuo.
Ovid, Am. III. ix. 59-60, 67-8.
C. VALERIUS FLACCUS, fl. 70 A.D.
1. Life.
VALERIUS
FLACCUS.
He lived in the reign of Vespasian (70-78 A.D.), to whom he dedicated his poem, in which he refers to Vespasian’s exploits in Britain and to the capture of Jerusalem by Titus, 70 A.D. There are also references to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Quintilian is the only Roman writer who mentions him (X. i. 90): Multum in Valerio Flacco nuper amisimus, which shows that he must have died circ. 90 A.D.