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Biographical information about Virgil is transmitted chiefly in vitae ('lives') of the poet prefixed to commentaries on his work by Probus, Donatus, and Servius.The life given by Donatus is generally considered to closely reproduce the life of Virgil from a lost work of Suetonius on the lives of famous authors, just as Donatus used this source for the poet's life in his commentary on Terence ...
In Eclogue 10, Virgil replaces Theocritus' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend, the elegiac poet Gaius Cornelius Gallus, imagined dying of love in Arcadia. Virgil transforms this remote, mountainous, and myth-ridden region of Greece, homeland of Pan, into the ...
Lucius Varius Rufus was a poet contemporary with Virgil, about four years older than him; he was a friend of Virgil, and introduced him to Maecenas, who was to become Virgil's patron when he wrote his next poem, the Georgics. He was famous for writing epic poetry as well as a tragedy called Thyestes praised by Quintilian (10.1.98).
Eclogue 4, also known as the Fourth Eclogue, is a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil. The poem is dated to 40 BC by its mention of the consulship of Virgil's patron Gaius Asinius Pollio. The work predicts the birth of a boy, a supposed savior, who—once he is of age—will become divine and eventually rule over the world.
In Britain there was a tendency to grant Virgil honorary citizenship. In the introduction to his turn of the century translation for the Everyman edition, T. F. Royds argued that "just as the Latin poet had his pedigree, Virgil is here an adopted English poet, and his many translators have made for him an English pedigree too". [36]
The poet's description of himself as a retired politician now dedicated to philosophy excludes Virgil's authorship. [25] He appears to have imitated all three canonical Virgilian works, as well as Ovid and Manilius , but a date later than Messalla's death (no later than early AD 13 [ 26 ] ) creates a problem identifying the poet's addressee. [ 27 ]
Thomson derived the phrase Novus ordo seclorum from a poem by the Roman poet Virgil. He wrote that the phrase signified "the beginning of the New American Era" as of the date of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which was depicted in Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid on the seal. [1] [2]
Virgil Romulus Gheorghiu (March 22, 1908–March 7, 1977) was a Romanian poet and musician. Born in Roman , his father Miltiade Gheorghiu was a career army officer, while his mother was a primary-school teacher.