Virgil reading the Aeneid to the Roman Emperor Augustus, his wife Livia and his sister Octavia. The poet mentions Olivia's dead son Maercellus, causing Augustus to stop the recital as Olivia faints from shock. Painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

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