...years ; and that the following distich, written in his last sickness, should be inscribed upon his tomb: Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. 1 He was accordingly interred, by the order of Augustus, with great funeral pomp, within two miles...

...deposited Virgil's remains. Now a plain marble slab bears this inscription : — " P. Virgilio Maroni. Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces, 1840. " Consacre" au prince des poetes latins, par FG Eichhoff, bibliothe'caire de SM la Reine des...

...deposited Virgil's remains. Now a plain marble slab bears this inscription : — " P. Virgilio Maroni. Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces, 1840. " Consacre" au prince des poetes latins, par FG Eichhoff, bibliothe'caire de SM la Reine des...

...probablement été percée sous Auguste. Sénèque et Pétrone en parlent comme d'un passage étroit cripti Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Tout cela a disparu; mais on ya placé en 1554 l'inscription suivante: Qui ciñeres ? tumuli hœc vestigia...

...September, BC 19). Ossa eius Neapolim translata sunt tumuloque condita ... in quo distichon fecit tale : " Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces."' His personal appearance and character are thus described by Donatus : ' Corpore et statura fuit grandis,...

...lapidem secundum) beigesetzt und auf sein Grabmal das von ihm selbst verfafste Distichon geschrieben: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. In Neapel wurde das Grab des Dichters vom abergläubischen Volke mit heiliger Scheu verehrt, wie einst...

...the Eclogues and ending with the Aeneid. It is even outlined in the celebrated epitaph on Virgil's tomb: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces. The life of the shepherd in the country, the life of the warrior engaged in great affairs - in that...

...Naples. Dante's lines recall the familiar epitaph for Virgil quoted in Suetonius's Vita Virgili, XXXVI: Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces ("Mantua bore me; in Calabria [Brindisi] I died; Parthenope [Naples] now holds my bones; I sang of...

...Siren supposed to be buried there), where V. was buried; cf. the epitaph reported at Vita Donati 36 Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc \ Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. ignobilis oti: cf. 2.486 (and n.) inglorius; the self-deprecatory reference is in marked contrast to...

...sepolcro su cui fu inciso il distico che, secondo alcune testimonianze, fu dettato dal poeta morente: «Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet / nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua rura duces». Lasciò eredi del suo patrimonio il fratello Valerio Proculo nato da altro padre, Augusto, Mecenate,...