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...Last line of "The Syrian Dancing Girl," a poem attributed to Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil...
Just 2,000 years ago come October 15, was born on a farm near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro, greatest Roman poet, suave and brilliant favorite of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, frequent guest of Tycoon Maecenas. From now on until Virgil's 2,000th birthday in October Italian gardeners will be furiously busy planting the Lucus Virgili or "Virgilian Wood," a great new park on the outskirts of Mantua, a modern version of the sacred groves of the ancient Romans, who planted groves of trees which in aspiring to heaven might honor their gods, goddesses. Because Poet Virgil mentioned...
...Publius Vergilius Maro, "greatest Roman poet," author of the Aeneid, was born, strictly speaking, not at Mantua, but on a farm nearby...
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