...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...

...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 my residence....

...longtemps et agréablement, et, au plus fort de sa maladie, il se fil pour lui-même ce distique : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. » Ses os furent donc transportés à Naples, par l'ordre d'Auguste, comme il l'avait désiré, et...

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

...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...

...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 Sannazaro...

...upon the tomb of VIRGIL, the prince of Roman poets, and is said to have been dictated by himself: — Mantua me genuit Calabri rapuere tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini Pascua Rura, Duces. The tomb is situated near Naples. 270. From Peterchurch : — Sickness was my portion, Physic was my...

...it had 9 small columns supporting a marble urn, with the well-known inscription on the frieze : — Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua, rura, duces. He says that the urn and columns, and some small statues which decorated the Tomb, were given by Robert...

...upon the tomb of VIRGIL, the prince of Roman poets, and is said to have been dictated by himself: — Mantua me genuit Calabri rapuere tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini Pascua Rura, Duces. The tomb is situated near Naples. 270. From Peterchurch : — Sickness was my portion, Physic was my...

...prima di morire componesse egli stesso il proprio epitafflo in quei due versi tanto celebri oramai Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Lasciô eredi l'Imperatore Augusto, Mecenate, Lucio Varo e Ptozio Tueca. Ebbe modi piuttosto rusticali...