Excerpt from P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos: Lib, XI, Edited for the Use of SchoolsIn the Opening lines of the third Georgie Virgil had already announced his intention of attempting a loftier theme and producing a great national epic, of which Augustus should be the central figure, and the Emperor himself is said to have written to him from Spain (27 encouraging him to publish the poem, which he was known to have in hand, and which Propertius a y...
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