| Adam Clarke - 1804 - 374 lapas
...the following epitaph, which it is said he made a little before his death, was placed on his tomb: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: Cecini PASCUA, RURA, DUCES. I sung FLOCKS, TILLAGE, HEROES— Mantua gave Me life ; Brvndusivm death, Naples a grave. The following... | |
| 1814 - 774 lapas
...which though not genuine, is yet ancient, was inscribed by the order of the Duke of Pescolangiano, then proprietor of the place, on a marble slab placed...body is acquainted with it — ' Mantua me genuit, Calahri rapuere, tenet nunc ' Parthenope ; cecini pascua, rura, duces.' (p. 514.) * The laurel which... | |
| John Chetwode Eustace - 1818 - 538 lapas
...epitaph which though not genuine is yet ancient, was inscribed by order of the Duke of Pescolanciano, then proprietor of the place, on a marble slab placed...with it — Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet mine Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces. An Italian author , I think Pietro de Stefano , assures... | |
| Henry Sass - 1818 - 420 lapas
...brick, with nine columns in the middle, which supported the urn of marble with the ancient distich : Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces. Nothing remains but a square room with an arched roof. Above the ruin, among many briers, pellitories,... | |
| 1823 - 622 lapas
...inscription, said to be from the pen of the poet himself, " but now rejected on the cliff as a forgery :" — Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces. The beauty of the spot, as well as the poet's name, has attracted many of our countrymen to choose... | |
| 1825 - 538 lapas
...deux vers le lieu de sa naissance, de sa mort, de sa sépulture, et le dénombrement de ses ouvrages : Mantua me genuit , Calabri rapuere , tenet nunc , Parthenope. Cecini pascua , rura , duces. Il faut que le poème épique soit un ouvrage d'une extrême difficulté , puisque pendant plusieurs... | |
| John Colin Dunlop - 1827 - 634 lapas
...inscribed on it, which is said to have been written by the poet himself, a few moments before he expired— Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere ; tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. It was a common practice among the Latin poets to write their own epitaphs ; and if the above distich... | |
| 1828 - 332 lapas
...deposited, as the place in which he had passed the happiest part of his life: it bears this epitaph— Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces— dictated by himself, shortly before his death (19 BC), ordering at the same time his splendid work... | |
| 1829 - 488 lapas
...epitaph which though not genuine is yet ancient, was inscribed by the order of the Duke of Pescolangiano, then proprietor of the place, on a marble slab placed...where it still remains. Every body is acquainted with itMantua me genuit, Galabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, ducen. But there are... | |
| 1832 - 636 lapas
...inscribed by order of the Duke of Pescolangiano, the proprietor of the place, on a marble slab placed on the side of the rock opposite the entrance of the...remains. Every body is acquainted with it. " Mantua roe genuit Calabri rapuere, lenet nur.c Parthenopo, cecini pascua, rura, duces." Some authors have... | |
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