Proper noun

Singular Vergil

Plural -

Vergil

1. Alternative spelling of Virgil. ( the writer)
2. A male given name, a rare spelling variant of Virgil.

Publius Vergilius Maro (also known by the Anglicised forms of his name as Virgil or Vergil) (October 15, 70 BCE – September 21, 19 BCE) was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works—the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the Aeneid—although several minor poems are also attributed to him.

The son of a farmer, Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid can be considered a national epic of Rome and has been extremely popular from its publication to the present day.

Life

Legend has it that Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul. Scholars suggest Etruscan, Umbrian or even Celtic descent by examining the linguistic or ethnic markers of the region. Analysis of his name has led to beliefs that he descended from earlier Roman colonists. Modern speculation ultimately is not supported by narrative evidence either from his own writings or his later biographers. Etymological fancy has noted that his cognomen MARO shares its letters anagrammatically with the twin themes of his epic: AMOR (love) and ROMA (Rome).

Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – 19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.

Contents

• 1 Sourced
  • 1.1 Georgics
  • 1.2 Eclogues
  • 1.3 The Aeneid
• 2 External links

Sourced

Georgics

• Audacibus annue coeptis
  • Translation: Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
  • Georgics, Book I, line 40

• Umida solstitia atque hiemes orate serenas, agricolae.
  • Translation: O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.
  • Georgics, Book I, line 100

• Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis paulatim.
  • Translation: Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
  • Georgics, Book I, line 133

• Ignavum, fucos, pecus a praesepibus arcent.
  • Translation: They keep out of the hives the drones, an indolent bunch.
  • Georgics, Book IV, line 168

Eclogues

• Latet anguis in herba.
  • Translation: A snake lurks in the grass.
  • Book III, line 93

• Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.
  • Translation: Time bears away all things, even our minds.
  • Book IX, line 51

• Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.
  • Translation: Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
  • Book IX, line 64

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