. -THE SOC.\I,I,ED FONDO VERGILIO .\T PIETOLE. But why were the farmers round Mantua being turned out ? Because the troops of Antony, in the year after the battle of Philippi in 42 , in which they had helped to defeat Brutus and Cassius, demanded that Antony and Octavian should fulfil the promises which they had made of liberal pensions. (At this time Vergil was twenty-nine years old.) Now the only form of military pension which the Romans knew was a grant of land, and to these soldiers land had been promised in North Italy. For this purpose the territory of Cremona, a town which had offen
. -THE SOC.\I,I,ED FONDO VERGILIO .\T PIETOLE. But why were the farmers round Mantua being turned out ? Because the troops of Antony, in the year after the battle of Philippi in 42 , in which they had helped to defeat Brutus and Cassius, demanded that Antony and Octavian should fulfil the promises which they had made of liberal pensions. (At this time Vergil was twenty-nine years old.) Now the only form of military pension which the Romans knew was a grant of land, and to these soldiers land had been promised in North Italy. For this purpose the territory of Cremona, a town which had offended .\ntony, had been entirely confiscated. But even so there was not replies that the report was untrue, and that in fact both Menalcas and his servant had barely escaped with their lives. Nevertheless the poem goes on to other subjects, and seems to describe Menalcas as being in a fairh' cheerful condition and expecting to " sLng better songs," that is to write more ambitious poetry. His Description of the Farm Now in the course of the story, as it appears in the 1 Not long afterwards we find him in an estate near Naples, given to him by his friend Maecenas, the wealthy minister of Octavian.
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