...vers le lieu de sa naissance , celui de sa mort, celui de sa sépulture, et le nombre de ses poèmes : Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. On sait que cet illustre poète avait ordonné par testament qu'on brûlât son Enéide, comme un ouvrage...

...muse, Theocritus, into Italy, a failure. The wellknown inscription, said to have been placed on his tomb : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. thus translated : In Mantua bom ; Calabria took me thence ; At last Parthenope became my residence....

...longtemps et agréablement, et, au plus fort de sa maladie, il se fil pour lui-même ce distique : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. » Ses os furent donc transportés à Naples, par l'ordre d'Auguste, comme il l'avait désiré, et...

...is on the promontory of Pausilippo, overlooking the Bay of Naples. The inscription upon it is : — Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. "The epitaph," says Eustace, Classical Tour, I. 499, "which, though not genuine, is yet ancient, was...

...upon the tomb of VIRGIL, the prince of Roman poets, and is said to have been dictated by himself: — Mantua me genuit Calabri rapuere tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini Pascua Rura, Duces. The tomb is situated near Naples. 270. From Peterchurch : — Sickness was my portion, Physic was my...

...upon the tomb of VIRGIL, the prince of Roman poets, and is said to have been dictated by himself: — Mantua me genuit Calabri rapuere tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini Pascua Rura, Duces. The tomb is situated near Naples. 270. From Peterchurch : — Sickness was my portion, Physic was my...

...prima di morire componesse egli stesso il proprio epitafflo in quei due versi tanto celebri oramai Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Lasciô eredi l'Imperatore Augusto, Mecenate, Lucio Varo e Ptozio Tueca. Ebbe modi piuttosto rusticali...

...it had 9 small columns supporting a marble urn, with the well-known inscription on the frieze : — Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua, rura, duces. He says that the urn and columns, and some small statues which decorated the Tomb, were given by Robert...

...contained a marble urn with 9 small pillars, the frieze of which bore the well-known inscription : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. Of all this no trace now remains. In 1530, however, Cardinal Bembo's epitaph on the poet Sannazaro...

...Genoa they were lost. The epitaph reported to be inscribed on the urn is the well-known distich — ' ' Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces." But not a vestige of this remains. On a marble slab placed on the side of the rock opposite the entrance...