| Virgil - 1834 - 314 Seiten
...steadiness and tranquillity as to be able to dictate his own epitaph, in the following words : — Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces. His bones were carried to Naples, according to his earnest request, and a monument was erected at a... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1836 - 516 Seiten
...Questo verso è tolto dall' epitafio che Virgilio fece per se medesimo nell' ultima sua malattia : Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. Anche Gio. Villani dice Brandizio per Brindisi ( PoRI/) Matto è chi spera che nostra ragione Possa... | |
| Franz Dorotheus Gerlach - 1841 - 468 Seiten
...Gemäuer mit mehreren Nischen. Auf einer weissen in Felsen gemauerten Marmortafel liest man die Worte: «Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces.» welche Verse nach Donat Virgil selber gedichtet und zum Epitaphium für sich bestimmt hatte. mels,... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1841 - 156 Seiten
...built by the direction of Virgil himself, who composed the following epitaph to be inscribed on it : Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope ; Cecini pascua, rura, duces. Which has been thus paraphrased : I sung Flocks, Tillage, Heroes ; Mantua gave Me life, Brundusium... | |
| Cynthius (Cenetensis.) - 1845 - 290 Seiten
...sepultus in via puteolana ad secundum lapidem a sinistris: in cujus monumento tale Icgitur epigramuia: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Statura fait procera, colore subpallido, natura imbecilli, proclivis ad pthisim: dolore capitis saepius... | |
| Pietro Alighieri - 1845 - 966 Seiten
...umbram faciebat, acceptum de Brundu308 sio et Neapoli reconditum. Quare in ejus epitaph io scribitur: Mantua me genuit , Calabri rapuere , tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua , rura, duces ; idest Bucolicam , Georgicam , et Aeneida. Ad secundara et ultimara dicit quornodo ascensus illius... | |
| Robert Folkestone Williams - 1847 - 340 Seiten
...the sweetest pieces of pastoral ever written by that truly famous poet, who hath for his epitaph: — Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces." "If our judgment do not fail, they are most happily chosen," continued the queen. "How well he describeth... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1847 - 606 Seiten
...modest inscription, said to have been written by the poet himself, a few moments before his death, " Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces." Walton would have puzzled Nibby's archaiological skill, had he visited Rome lately. Rennie says here,... | |
| 1850 - 418 Seiten
...am Schluss der Georgica (IV. 563.) sagt, bestattet zu werden. Er setzte sich selbst die Grabschrift: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Auf dieselbe enthält jene Marmortafel, welche im XVI. Jahrhundert am Eingange des alten Columbariums... | |
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