Mantua Quotes
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Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini
pascua rura duces. Mantua brought me
life,Calabria death; now Naples holds me: I sang of
flocks and farms and heroes.
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Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces.
— Mantua bore me; the people of Calabria carried me off; Parthenope (Naples) holds me now. I have sung of pastures, of fields, of chieftains.
— Virgil's Epitaph; said to be by himself; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 235.
