. Fig. 4.—roadside stream, south of c.^rpexedolo. inscription also belongs to precisely the same period (say from 50 to 100). He further pointed out that Calvisano, where the first inscription (on an altar dedicated by a lady called Vergilia) was found, was exactly at the distance from Mantua, namely thirty Roman miles, which, as we know from Probus, Vergil's birthplace, Andes, was. Now these coincidences (of names, time, and place) seem too remarkable to be due to accident : and they certainly indicate the neighbourhood of Calvisano, which lies on the road from Mantua to Brescia, as
. Fig. 4.—roadside stream, south of c.^rpexedolo. inscription also belongs to precisely the same period (say from 50 to 100). He further pointed out that Calvisano, where the first inscription (on an altar dedicated by a lady called Vergilia) was found, was exactly at the distance from Mantua, namely thirty Roman miles, which, as we know from Probus, Vergil's birthplace, Andes, was. Now these coincidences (of names, time, and place) seem too remarkable to be due to accident : and they certainly indicate the neighbourhood of Calvisano, which lies on the road from Mantua to Brescia, as a neighbourhood in which it is at least possible that members of Vergil's family once lived. Of course the Vergilia mentioned in the inscription could not be the poet's daughter, his own home ? In June 1922, and again last February, I did my best to settle this question by visiting the district. Calvisano lies between the rivers Chiese and Mella,'^ five English miles W. of the ridge of Carpenedolo. 1 It runs thus, on the face of an altar, which itself was the object vowed: Matfonabus Vergilia G{ai) j(ilia) Vera, pro Mnnatia T{iti) /{ilia) Calulla v{otum) s{olvit) l{ibens) m(erito)_ " Vergilia Vera, daughter of Gains, having received an answer to her prayer for Munatia Catulla, daughter of Titus, gratefully pays her ; If these two ladies were mother and daughter, the husband of the first and father of the second must have been called Titus Munatius. - This lovely stream is the only one of the small rivers of North Italy mentioned by Vergil in the Georgics (iv. 278), and it is there mentioned, as Mr. Mackail has reminded me, with a special note of familiarity and affection.
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