 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 332 Seiten
...is still shown, with the following inscription, said to have been dictated by him on his death-bed : Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua, rura, duces. In his will he had ordered that the JEneid should be burnt, not having finished it to his mind ; but... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 364 Seiten
...their temples. The epitaph of Virgil, said to have been the product of his own pen, is as follows: " Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces." For its brevity, this epitaph may be regarded as a fair specimen of the Grecian standard of excellence... | |
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Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. 
