...d'Ottaviano funno recale l'ossa suoe a Napuli, unde si disseno essere scritti questi versi nel suo sepulcro: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces. E pero si mostra che Virgilio inorisse durante lo imperio d'Ottaviano; ne lo quale tempo Cristo nacque,...

...pertetrasticha. ANTHOL. LAT., 1. 1, lib. n;Epigr. 197. Ex argu« mento hujus distichi Virgiliaui : « Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc « Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. » IV. Douze hexastiches que je n'ai point rencontrés dans le Cicéron de Lemaire, mais que l'on trouve...

...though on doubtful authority, that he himself wrote the following inscription, which was placed on his tomb : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. — The earliest works of Virgil were the Bucolics, which were written probably between 41 and 37 B....

...l'épitaphe que Virgile lui-même s'était composée, en manifestant la volonté d'être enterré à Naples : Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. Le laurier, planté par Pétrarque, et renouvelé par Casimir Delavigne, a séché ; comme souvenir,...

...ascended the hill of Posilippo, as it may have done, the situation of the monument would agree very well with the description of Donatus. The following...poet, though Donatus says that it was. Virgil named as heredes in his testament his half-brother, Valerius Proculus, to whom he left one half of his estate,...

...he most coveted these three — " vocem, et os, et hypocrisin." The possession of this power may * Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. 1 With Virgil on one hand, and Horace on the other— the one asthmatic, and the other blear-eyed —...

...pillars, but it has long been removed, and is now lost. The following inscription was on it : — " Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces." " At Mantua I first saw the day, Calabrians snatched me away, My bones lie now 'midst Naples' rocks,...

...ascended the hill of Posilippo, as it may have done, the situation of the monument would agree very well with the description of Donatus. The following...poet, though Donatus says that it was. Virgil named as hercdes in his testament his half-brother, Valerius Proculus, to whom he left one half of his estate,...

...contained a marble urn with 9 small pillars, the frieze of which bore the well-known inscription : Mantua me genuit , Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Of all this no trace now remains. In 1530, however, Cardinal Bembo's epitaph on the poet Sannazar (p....

...is on the promontory of Pausilippo, overlooking the Bay of Naples. The inscription upon it is: — Mantua me genuit: Calabri rapuere: tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. "The epitaph," says Eustace, Classical Tour, I. 499, "which, though not genuine, is-yet ancient, was...