...Augustus, was conveyed for burial to the neighbourhood of Naples. Compare Can. 7, 1. 6, and the epitaph, " Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua, rura, duces." 1. 40. And thou hast seen. — As Virgil has said of himself and of the spirits in Limbo. [Hell, Can....

...of the poet, as well as his threefold labours in the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid : — ' Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces.' This epitaph Donatus credulously assigns to Virgil himself. His parents, we are told, lived long enough...

...centre in said to have contained nine marble pillars, supporting aa urn with the following inscription,' "Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces." The urn is gone, not a name appears : but from tie hand of ever bounteous nature, an evergreen stretches...

...und wurden an der Via Puteolana beigesetzt, wo man noch jetzt das Grabmal zeigt. Seine Grabschrift : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini : pascua, rura, duces. Seine Werke sind ein grosses episches Gedicht in zwölf Gesängen, ,Aenei's', das jedoch der letzten...

...the situation of the monument would agree very well with the description of Donatus. The inscription said to have been placed on the tomb, " Mantua me...tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces," we cannot suppose to have been written by the poet, though Donatus says that it was. Virgil named as...

...the situation of the monument would agree very well with the description of Donatas. The inscription said to have been placed on the tomb, " Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet mine Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces," •we cannot suppose to have been written by the poet,...

...s'élève à cet endroit depuis peu, et porte cette inscription que j'ai transcrite : P. VIRGIUO MARONI. MANTUA ME GENUIT, CALABRI RAPUERE, TENET NUNC PARTHENOPE. CECINI PASCUA, RURA, DUCES. 1840. Consacré au prince des poètes latins par T.-C.-G. Eichhoff, Bibliothécaire de SM la reine...

...avoir vu l'urne de marbre sur laquelle étaient gravés les deux vers qui résument si bien Virgile : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. Qu'est devenue cette urne dont personne n'a parlé depuis, commenta-t-elle pu disparaître? Heureusement,...

...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...