Person
Albius Tibullus
Latin poet and writer
Albius Tibullus (ca.
55 BCE – 19 BCE) is 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, nor is his birthplace and his gentile name has been questioned.
His status is probably that of a Roman knight (so the Life affirms); and he has inherited a considerable estate.
But, like Virgil, Horace and Propertius, he seems to have lost most of it in 41 BCE amongst the confiscations of Mark Antony and Octavian.