Introduction to classical Latin literature . GEUKCilCS, 11,S-124, AXD a Airgil manuscript in the Vatican. VIRGIL 167 tliese ver} allnsions are often the only possible ackno\\ 1-edgment of Virgils debt to his masters. Finally, he whoenjoys only purely creative genius, or communion withnature in her elemental forms, will find little indeed tosatisfy him in the Latin poets—save only Lucretius. ^NEID It was doubtless by imperial command, in some form orother, that the poet spent his last eleven years on hisnational ei3ic. Not Augustus, and not ^neas, is the pro-tagonist in t


Introduction to classical Latin literature . GEUKCilCS, 11,S-124, AXD a Airgil manuscript in the Vatican. VIRGIL 167 tliese ver} allnsions are often the only possible ackno\\ 1-edgment of Virgils debt to his masters. Finally, he whoenjoys only purely creative genius, or communion withnature in her elemental forms, will find little indeed tosatisfy him in the Latin poets—save only Lucretius. ^NEID It was doubtless by imperial command, in some form orother, that the poet spent his last eleven years on hisnational ei3ic. Not Augustus, and not ^neas, is the pro-tagonist in this largest and most ambitious work of in the long rolling hexameter measure, repeatedalmost ten thousand times, we seem to hear the resistlesstread of a tireless folk, pushing on through the changingcenturies to the overlordship of Latium, of the peninsula,of the wide Mediterranean world. Though the poetstenderest love is always for far-away Lombardy, though hedetests the imperial city where the clients throng at dawnat the


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