...ostentation and simple is the inscription he writes, a little before his death, to be placed on his tomb — " Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces." I, however, for my part, and I daresay all who have read hia writings will readily concur with me,...

...pertetrasticha. ANTHOL. LAT., 1. 1, lib. n;Epigr. 197. Ex argu« mento hujus distichi Virgiliaui : « Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc « Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. » IV. Douze hexastiches que je n'ai point rencontrés dans le Cicéron de Lemaire, mais que l'on trouve...

...Maecenate cum Proculo minore fratre. in cius sepulcro, ivquod est in uia Puteolana hoc legitur cpigramma: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua rura duces. Aeneis somata ab Augusto , qnamuis ipse testamento damnases contulit CW Mulleras, Monacenscni C. Halmius,...

...d'Ottaviano funno recale l'ossa suoe a Napuli, unde si disseno essere scritti questi versi nel suo sepulcro: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces. E pero si mostra che Virgilio inorisse durante lo imperio d'Ottaviano; ne lo quale tempo Cristo nacque,...

...though on doubtful authority, that he himself wrote the following inscription, which was placed on his tomb : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. — The earliest works of Virgil were the Bucolics, which were written probably between 41 and 37 B....

...l'épitaphe que Virgile lui-même s'était composée, en manifestant la volonté d'être enterré à Naples : Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. Le laurier, planté par Pétrarque, et renouvelé par Casimir Delavigne, a séché ; comme souvenir,...

...his favorite residence, and placed on the * Merivalc, of. cit. Vol. IV. p. 448. road (Via Putcolana) from Naples to Puteoli (Pozzuoli), between the first...rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, cluces. From internal evidence it is improbable that it was written by the poet, though Donatus says...

...he most coveted these three — " vocem, et os, et hypocrisin." The possession of this power may * Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. 1 With Virgil on one hand, and Horace on the other— the one asthmatic, and the other blear-eyed —...

...pillars, but it has long been removed, and is now lost. The following inscription was on it : — " Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces." " At Mantua I first saw the day, Calabrians snatched me away, My bones lie now 'midst Naples' rocks,...

...saying of I know not what Virgilian enthusiast, that if Homer really made Virgil, undoubtedly it was his greatest work," * When Augustus was returning from...poet, though Donatus says that it was. Virgil named as hercdes in his testament his half-brother, Valerius Proculus, to whom he left one half of his estate,...