 | Suetonius - Emperors - 1896 - 576 pages
...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 two miles... | |
 | George Homer Emerson - Clergy - 1896 - 612 pages
...deposited Virgil's remains. Now a plain marble slab bears this inscription : — " P. Virgilio Maroni. Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces, 1840. " Consacre" au prince des poetes latins, par FG Eichhoff, bibliothe'caire de SM la Reine des... | |
 | George Homer Emerson - Clergy - 1896 - 616 pages
...deposited Virgil's remains. Now a plain marble slab bears this inscription : — " P. Virgilio Maroni. Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces, 1840. " Consacre" au prince des poetes latins, par FG Eichhoff, bibliothe'caire de SM la Reine des... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Italy - 1896 - 534 pages
...probablement été percée sous Auguste. Sénèque et Pétrone en parlent comme d'un passage étroit cripti Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Tout cela a disparu; mais on ya placé en 1554 l'inscription suivante: Qui ciñeres ? tumuli hœc vestigia... | |
 | George Middleton, Thomas Ross Mills - Authors, Latin - 1896 - 408 pages
...September, BC 19). Ossa eius Neapolim translata sunt tumuloque condita ... in quo distichon fecit tale : " Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces."' His personal appearance and character are thus described by Donatus : ' Corpore et statura fuit grandis,... | |
 | Paul Schwieger - 1897 - 98 pages
...lapidem secundum) beigesetzt und auf sein Grabmal das von ihm selbst verfafste Distichon geschrieben: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. In Neapel wurde das Grab des Dichters vom abergläubischen Volke mit heiliger Scheu verehrt, wie einst... | |
 | Graham Hough - Literary Collections - 1978 - 260 pages
...the Eclogues and ending with the Aeneid. It is even outlined in the celebrated epitaph on Virgil's tomb: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces. The life of the shepherd in the country, the life of the warrior engaged in great affairs - in that... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - History - 1981 - 388 pages
...Naples. Dante's lines recall the familiar epitaph for Virgil quoted in Suetonius's Vita Virgili, XXXVI: Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces ("Mantua bore me; in Calabria [Brindisi] I died; Parthenope [Naples] now holds my bones; I sang of... | |
 | Virgil - Foreign Language Study - 1988 - 266 pages
...Siren supposed to be buried there), where V. was buried; cf. the epitaph reported at Vita Donati 36 Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc \ Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. ignobilis oti: cf. 2.486 (and n.) inglorius; the self-deprecatory reference is in marked contrast to... | |
 | Enzio Cetrangolo - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 348 pages
...sepolcro su cui fu inciso il distico che, secondo alcune testimonianze, fu dettato dal poeta morente: «Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet / nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua rura duces». Lasciò eredi del suo patrimonio il fratello Valerio Proculo nato da altro padre, Augusto, Mecenate,... | |
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Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. 
