VERGIL

or VIRGIL, %. at Mantua, | Vers 70 B.C., d. 19 B.C., the greatest of | his to Latin poets. Virgil was one of the poets | Trea ‘** natron i sed”* by Macenas, tho ‘ prime- | Ame 8 care ” of August us, and his works were | here Sate peateel pons ail bop 1789, are poems, the ‘‘ Georgics "| own extols the art of farming, and tho'* Aincid” | a mc ig a — epic poem recounting the | force adven of Atneas, after the fall of | them oer the ¢ [s. 310]