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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Virgil

Virgil
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Life Of Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was born in a small country village, Andes, near
Mantua on October 15, 70 B.C. Tradition says his mother's name was Magia
Polla, The daughter of a certain man of property, Magius, for whom Virgil's
father worked at one time. From careful study of his poems and from references
in early biographers, we learn that he was the son of a middle class farmer,
received some education at the nearby city of Cremona, and possibly further
education at Milan. He took his "graduate courses" in Rome and Naples, where
the usual curriculum ...

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