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Virgil (70–19 B.C.)

Virgil—His earliest verses—His life and character—The minor poems

—The Eclogues—The Georgics—Virgil's love of Nature—His aptitude for epic poetry—The scope of the Aeneid—The Aeneid a religious poem —Its relation to preceding poetry.

APPENDIX.—Note I. Imitations of Virgil in Propertius, Ovid, and

Manilius,

" II. On the shortening of final o in Latin poetry,

" III. On parallelism in Virgil's poetry,

" IV. On the Legends connected with Virgil.