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Biographical information about Virgil is transmitted chiefly in vitae ('lives') of the poet prefixed to commentaries on his work by Probus, Donatus, and Servius.The life given by Donatus is generally considered to closely reproduce the life of Virgil from a lost work of Suetonius on the lives of famous authors, just as Donatus used this source for the poet's life in his commentary on Terence ...
Virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called not an idyll but an eclogue, from the Greek ἐκλογή ('selection', 'extract'). [2] The poems are populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. Performed ...
Vergilius Romanus, fol. 1 r. The beginning of Virgil’s Eclogues in MS. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1632, fol. 3r.. Eclogue 1 (Ecloga I) is a bucolic poem by the Latin poet Virgil from his Eclogues.
The poem may be summarised as follows: [3] 1 Virgil begins by explaining that his Muse, Thalea, first deigned to play songs in "Syracusan" verse (i.e. imitating those of Theocritus, who came from Syracuse, Sicily); when he attempted to write epic poetry ("kings and battles") Apollo checked him with the words, "Tityrus, a herdsman ought to pasture fat sheep, but sing thin poetry".
Jacques Delille (French:; 22 June 1738 at Aigueperse in Auvergne – 1 May 1813, in Paris) was a French poet who came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening.
Poem 13 is in iambics and attacks a certain Lucienus or Luccius for his love affairs and seedy living. Poem 13a is an elegiac epitaph on an unknown scholar. Poem 14 is an elegiac prayer to Venus to help him complete the Aeneid and a promise to pay his vows to her. The final poem is an elegiac epigram for Virgil's tomb signed by Varius.
Engraving of Pastoral 2: Dryden's Virgil, 1709. Eclogue 2 (Ecloga II; Bucolica II) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of a series of ten poems known as the Eclogues. In this Eclogue the herdsman Corydon laments his inability to win the affections of the young Alexis. [1]
The poem is based mainly on the bucolic Idyll 5 of the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus, but with elements added from Idyll 4 and other Theocritean idylls. [1] Like Theocritus's Idylls 4 and 5, and all of Virgil's surviving poetry, Eclogue 3 is composed in dactylic hexameters.