Mantua

, a town of Italy beyond the Po, founded about 300 years before Rome, by Bianor or Ocnus the son of Manto. It was the ancient capital of Etruria. When Cremona, which had followed the interest of Brutus, was given to the soldiers of Octavius, Mantua also, which was in the neighbourhood, shared the common calamity, though it had favoured the party of August us, and many of the inhabitants were tyrannically deprived of their po e ions. Virgil, who was among them, and a native of the town, and from thence often called Man tuan us , applied for redre to August us, and obtained it by means of his poetical talents. Strabo , bk. 5 .— Virgil , Eclogues , poem 1, . ; Georgics , ch. 3 , li. 12 ; Æneid , bk. 10 , li. 180 .— Ovid , Amores , bk. 3 , poem 15.