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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 ...
Folio 14 recto of the Vergilius Romanus contains an author portrait of Virgil. Folio 100 verso. Dido and Aeneas at the banquet. The Vergilius Romanus (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867), also known as the Roman Vergil, is a 5th-century illustrated manuscript of the works of Virgil.
However, many scholars are wary of equating Tityrus directly with Virgil. According to T. E. Page, "Although Tityrus represents Virgil, he is in the main an imaginary character and only speaks for the poet occasionally. So too the scenery of the Eclogue is purely imaginary, and does not in any way describe the country round Mantua."
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.
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).
As memories slip away from her husband, Bob, Saralee takes comfort that the couple's love survives in little everyday ways.
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.