...was buried; the following epitaph, which it is said he made a little before his death, was placed on his tomb: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: Cecini PASCUA, RURA, DUCES. I sung FLOCKS, TILLAGE, HEROES— Mantua gave Me life ; Brvndusivm death, Naples a grave....

...of ostentation and simple is the inscription he writes, a little before his death, to be placed on his tomb — " Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces." I, however, for my part, and I daresay all who have read hia writings will readily concur...

...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...

...Syracusan muse, Theocritus, into Italy, a failure. The wellknown inscription, said to have been placed on his tomb : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. thus translated : In Mantua bom ; Calabria took me thence ; At last Parthenope became...

...vidisse iacentee, Durn sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur. (Tuse, l, 42, 101.) VERGILS GRABSCHRIFT: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, гига, duces. (Sîergil шаг bei SDÎantua geboren, ftarb 311 SBrunbtfhtm in Sala* brien unb ujarb bei SReapel,...

...happy years ; and that the following distich, written in his last sickness, should be inscribed upon his tomb : Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces.1 He was accordingly interred, by the order of Augustus, with great funeral pomp, within...

...happy years ; and that the following distich, written in his last sickness, should be inscribed upon his tomb: Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. 1 He was accordingly interred, by the order of Augustus, with great funeral pomp, within...

...from Brundusium to Naples by order of Augustus, and to the old epitaph recorded by Suetonius :— ' Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua, гига, duces ' — ie I was born at Mantua, died at Calabrian Brundusium, and was buried at Naples ; I wrote the...

...contained a marble urn with nine small pillars, the frieze of which bore the well-known inscription: — Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, гига, duces. Of all this no trace now remains. The following inscription was placed here in 1554 : — Qui ciñeres?...

...perhaps be better divined if we compare the four rejected lines with the postscript of the Georgic. Both of them display that gentle self-depreciation...Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces. All three combine the poet's well-known passion for fame with his equally well-known modesty....