Note 409 — BOOK XI[336]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Publius Virgilius Maro (B.C. 70—B.C. 19), died at Brundisium in Calabria, and was buried at Parthenope (Naples). Virgil's tomb bears an inscription composed by himself in his last moments:—
Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces.—T.