...English translation. Take for instance the inscription said to have been placed on Virgil's tomb ; — Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. The Rev. Mr. Wright has put it into four English lines, but he loses all the brevity, and with it all...

...no seu tumulo se gravaram estes versos, que elle próprio compuzera eo mundo inteiro sabe de cor : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces. N.° 4-7. — Avgvstini Rtcij, de motu octavae Sphaerae, Opus Mathematica, atqz Philosophia plenum....

...décoré de 9 petites colonnes, rt'une urne en marbre, et de l'inscription si connue, sur la frise : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Tout cela a disparu depuis longtemps. Mais en 1530, le cardinal Hembo, dans son épitaphe en l'honneur...

...arma "for his .¿Eneid. The following inscription is said to have been placed on Vergil's tomb — " Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. " Where pascua = Tityrus, rura = segetes, duces = .¿Eneia arma. 1 6. Dum, see note on line 1. 17....

...weakness of the throat and stomach, and was liable to headaches and spitting of blood. He studied 1 Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua, rura, duces. much, and not only philosophy, poetry, and mythology, but astrology and medicine. He was temperate...

...following distich is usually said to have been written by Virgil himself shortly before his death : — Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope : Cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces. I sing, Flocks, Tillage, Heroes ; Mantua gave Me life; Brundmium death, Naples a grave. Works of Virgil,...

...Maecenate cum Proculo minore fratre. In cuius scpulcro x quod est in via Puteolana hoc legitur epigramma: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. Aeneis servata ab Augusto, quamvis ipse testamento damnaverit, ne quid eorum quod non edidisset extaret:...

...following distich is usually said to have been written by Virgil himself shortly before his death : — Mantua me genuit ; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope : Cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces. I sing, Flocks, Tillage, Heroes ; Mantua gave Me life ; Brundusium death, Naples a grave. Works of...

...Mantua's son, and the prey of Calabria,* Parthenope now holds me, who sang of herds, fields and war." Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces. The inscription was to be read, during the middle ages, over the frieze of the vault. Now it is again...

...translata sunt tumulogue condita qui est uia Puteolana intra lapidem secundum, in quo distichon fecit tale: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc | Parthenope: cecini pascua rura duces. On the columbarium shewn as Virgil's grave, and Petrarch's laurel, see Gsell-Fels Unter-Italien Hildburgh....