He afterwards rewarded many of his troops
other parts of Italy, dispossessing the owners for having sided with
was allotted to one of the imperial soldiers. But this was the
Mantua, he was introduced to Maecenas, and afterwards to Augustus, who
gratitude to the emperor in one of a series of poems called Pastorals
of life.html">life in the country. These poems, though among Vergil's earliest
that portions of them were recited in the theatre in the author's
their feet, an honor which it was customary to pay only to Augustus
which is agriculture, the breeding of cattle, and the culture of bees.
compositions. The AEneid is, however, regarded as the greatest of
the poet.html">poet's life.
Vergil died at Brun-di'si-um, in south Italy, in the fifty-first year
a few miles outside that city, where what is said to be his tomb is
agreeable idea from all that is known about him. He was modest, gentle
highest society while in Rome, he never forgot his old friends. He was
with his aged parents.
As a poet, Vergil was not only the greatest that Rome produced, but
favorite reading of his countrymen. They became a text-book in the
from their master's dictation, and wrote compositions upon its heroes.
extended, the AEneid became popular, and has retained its popularityLatin is taught.
There are many excellent translations of the AEneid into English. In
English poet Dryden, and from the later work by the eminent Latin
to be preferable to the form V_i_rgil which has for a long time.
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