The Æneïd of Virgil: With English Notes (Classic Reprint)

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Publius virgilius maro was born at the village of Andes, a few miles distant from Mantua, about 70 B. 0. His father was of low birth, having been, according to some authorities, a potter or brickmaker, and, according to others, the hireling of a travelling merchant named Maius, or Magus. He so ingiratiated himself, however, with his master, that he received his daughter Maia in marriage, and was intrusted with the charge of a farm which his father-in-law had acquired in the vicinity of Mantua. Our poet was the offspring of these humble parents. The studies of Virgil commenced at Cremona, where he re mained till he assumed the toga virilis. At the age of sixteen he removed to Mediolanum, and, shortly after, to N eapolis, where he laid the foundation of that multifarious learning which shines so conspicuously in-the Enez'd. During his residence in this city he perused the most celebrated Greek writers; and here he also studied the Epicurean system of philosophy, under Syro, a celebrated teacher of that sect. But medicine and mathematics were the sciences to which he was chiefly addicted; and to this early tincture.of geometrical knowledge may, perhaps, in some degree, be ascribed his ideas of luminous order, and masterly arrangement, and that regularity of thought, as well as exactness of expression, by which all his writings were distinguished.

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