 | George Homer Emerson - 1896 - 616 ページ
...deposited Virgil's remains. Now a plain marble slab bears this inscription : — " P. Virgilio Maroni. Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces, 1840. " Consacre" au prince des poetes latins, par FG Eichhoff, bibliothe'caire de SM la Reine des... | |
 | George Homer Emerson - 1896 - 612 ページ
...deposited Virgil's remains. Now a plain marble slab bears this inscription : — " P. Virgilio Maroni. Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces, 1840. " Consacre" au prince des poetes latins, par FG Eichhoff, bibliothe'caire de SM la Reine des... | |
 | Suetonius - 1896 - 576 ページ
...; and that the following distich, written in his last sickness, should be inscribed upon his tomb: Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. 1 He was accordingly interred, by the order of Augustus, with great funeral pomp, within two miles... | |
 | Graham Hough - 1978 - 260 ページ
...Eclogues and ending with the Aeneid. It is even outlined in the celebrated epitaph on Virgil's tomb: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces. The life of the shepherd in the country, the life of the warrior engaged in great affairs - in that... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1981 - 388 ページ
...Naples. Dante's lines recall the familiar epitaph for Virgil quoted in Suetonius's Vita Virgili, XXXVI: Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces ("Mantua bore me; in Calabria [Brindisi] I died; Parthenope [Naples] now holds my bones; I sang of... | |
 | Virgil - 1988 - 266 ページ
...Siren supposed to be buried there), where V. was buried; cf. the epitaph reported at Vita Donati 36 Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc \ Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. ignobilis oti: cf. 2.486 (and n.) inglorius; the self-deprecatory reference is in marked contrast to... | |
 | Enzio Cetrangolo - 1991 - 348 ページ
...sepolcro su cui fu inciso il distico che, secondo alcune testimonianze, fu dettato dal poeta morente: «Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet / nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua rura duces». Lasciò eredi del suo patrimonio il fratello Valerio Proculo nato da altro padre, Augusto, Mecenate,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1991 - 874 ページ
...perhaps to the epitaph (written probably by one of his friends) quoted by Suetonius (Vita Virgili XXXVI): "Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces." ("Mantua gave me the light, Calabria slew me; Parthenope now holds me. I have sung shepherds, the countryside,... | |
 | Calogero Riggi, Antonio Traglia - 1993 - 1074 ページ
...prima di morire: caso tipico l'epigramma sopra esaminato relativo a Pacuvio, e anche quello virgiliano Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc / Parthenope: cecini pascua rura duces; e lo stesso può dirsi, seppur non siano redatti in prima persona, ma siano eseguiti secondo una topica... | |
 | Nicholas Horsfall - 2000 - 818 ページ
...the tomb which stands on the Via Puteolana, before the second milestone. He wrote the couplet on it: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. Without foreknowledge of death at Brundisium and burial at Naples, 132 Virgil could not have written... | |
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Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua rura duces. 
