Author: Virgil Virgil

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780267815616

Excerpt from The Works of Virgil, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated by John Dryden Virgil having arrived at Athens, met with Augustus, who was returning from a victorious expedition to the East, and who requested the company of the post back to its. Ly. The latter deemed it his duty to comply; but being desirous of seei as many of the Grecian antiquities as the time would 25m of, went for that pur to Megara, where he was seized with a dangerous i hiess, (lung-ix rem nactus est) which, from neglect, and the agitation of the vessel in returning to Italy, proved mortal at Brun dusium, on the twenty-second of September, U. C. 735, when he had nearly completed his fifty-second year. Virgil died with the greatest tranquillity; and his remains being carried to Nacgles, were interred in a monument erected at a small stance from the city; where it is still shown, with the following inscription, said to have been dictated by him on his death-bed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.