OR MORE PROPERLY VERGIL - PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO VIRGIL
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The greatest of Roman epic poets; born at Andes, a little village near Mantua, Oct. 5, 70 B. C.; died at Brundisium, Sept. 21, 19 B. C. He wrote the epic Aeneid, in 12 books; several "Eclogues" or "Bucolics", pastoral poems in imitation of the idylls of Theocritus; and the "Georgies", a didactic poem on husbandry, in four books, and "Moretum".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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