P Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Lib 1 Edited For The Use Of Schools With Vocabulary By Te Page

Author : P. Vergili Maronis
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ISBN 13 : 9781331883883
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Lib; XII written by P. Vergili Maronis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Lib; XII: Edited for the Use of Schools On completing his education he seems to have returned home, and some of the minor poems ascribed to him - Ciris, Copa, Culex, Dime, Moretum - may be in reality youthful attempts of his composed during this period. Our rst certain knowledge, however, of his poetic career begins in B.C. 42, When, after the defeat of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi, the Roman World passed into the hands of the triumvirs Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus. They had promised their victorious veterans the lands of eighteen cities in Italy, among which was Cremona, and subsequently it became necessary to include the neighbouring district of Mantua Virgils father was threatened with the loss of his farm, but the youthful poet had secured the favour of C. Asinius Pollio, governor of Cisalpine Gaul, and of L. Alfenus Varus, his successor (B.C. 41), whose assistance he invokes in the sixth Eclogue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.