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.