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A Translation of the Works of Virgil; Partly Original, and Partly Altered From Dryden and Pitt. by J. Ring
A Translation of the Works of Virgil Partly Original and Partly Altered From Dryden and Pitt by J Ring Author:Publius Vergilius Maro General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE LIFE OF VIRGIL. Gpthrie, in his Chronological Table, says, " Here ends the illustrious list of ancient, or, as they are styled, Classic authors, for whom mankind are indebted to Greece and Rome, those two great theatres of human glory; but it will ever be regretted, that only a small part of their writings has come to our hands." Of these authors, the two most celebrated are Homer and Virgil. Publius Virgilius Maro was born at Andes, now called Petula, near Mantua, in the Consulship of Pompey and Crassus; seventy years before the Christian era. When twelve years of age, he was sent to Cremona; where he studied five years. He afterwards went to Milan, where he remained a short time; and to Naples, where he finished his education. He then returned to the place of his nativity; where he applied himself to the pursuits of agriculture. This was probably about his twenty-second year; when the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey began; and the confusion at Rome was so great. The Alexis is supposed to have been the earliest of his compositions now extant; and to have been written by him when twenty-ftve years of age. It may, therefore, have been seen by Julius Caesar. The third Eclogue, called Palaemon, in which Pollio alone, of all the great men then in existence, is celebrated, asa patron of the author, and himself a poet, was probably the second; and seems to have been written when Mantua was under the government of that favourer of the Muses. The Eclogue called Tityrus, though placed the first, is not supposed to have been the first in point of time. When the lands of the people of Cremon...« less