. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . ith ivy ; and many other things which wereproofs of excessive luxury and a confidence of victory; sothat it might readily be inferred that they had no premoni-tions of the issue of the day, as they indulged themselvesin unnecessary pleasures, and yet upbraided with luxuryCaesars army, distressed and suffering troops, who had alwaysbeen in want of common necessaries. Pompey, as soon as our men had forced the trenches,mounting his horse and stripping off his generals habit,went hastily out of the back gate of the ca
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . ith ivy ; and many other things which wereproofs of excessive luxury and a confidence of victory; sothat it might readily be inferred that they had no premoni-tions of the issue of the day, as they indulged themselvesin unnecessary pleasures, and yet upbraided with luxuryCaesars army, distressed and suffering troops, who had alwaysbeen in want of common necessaries. Pompey, as soon as our men had forced the trenches,mounting his horse and stripping off his generals habit,went hastily out of the back gate of the camp, and gallopedwith all speed to Larissa. Nor did he stop there, but with thesame dispatch, collecting a few of his flying troops, and halt-ing neither day nor night, he arrived at the sea-shore attendedby only thirty horsemen, and went on board a victuallingbark, often complaining, as we have been told, that he hadbeen so deceived in his expectation, that he was almost per-suaded that he had been betrayed by those from whom hehad expected victory, when they began the Virgil takes the highest rank among the Roman was the poetical representative of the Augustan age insentiment, in ethics, in culture and style. He gave to theHomeric epic that polish which was necessary to procure itsacceptance by imperial Rome and to transmit it to the Westernnations. Publius Virgilius Maro (whose name is said to bemore correctly spelled Vergilius) was born in the year ,in Andes, near Mantua. He acquired the rudiments of a liberaleducation at Cremona, Milan and Naples. He seems to havesettled down to the composition of the eclogues in his nativeplace, but owing to the public distribution of land whichtook place after the battle of Philippi, he was deprived ofhis hereditary farm. This, however, he recovered by the aidof Pollio and Maecenas when he went to Rome. Henceforthhe was a court favorite, and one of the galaxy of literary cele-brities and associates of Maecenas. In B
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