Beliefs!

"Believe one who has tried it."

Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro is a Roman poet. The Latin poet was born on October 15, 70 BC in Norhern Italy in a small village called Andes near Manuta in Cisalpine Gaul south of the Alps in northern Italy, and died of fever he caught while he travelled to Greece, on September 21st, 19. BCE in Brindisi - Brundisium harbor. He instructed on his deathbed the Aeneid should be destroyed but by Augustus' order the poem was edited and published after his death.

The Aeneid by Virgil, took his last ten years and came out consists of several books he said in it that Rome will be consisted of mixed blood. He received early education at the age of five years old, studied rhetoric, medicine and astronomy and abandoned this last education to philosophy in Rome. He began writing poetry while he was at school there in Siro the Epicurean. His first poetry published in mid 30's BC. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the historical figure of Vergil guides Dante on his pilgrimage through hell, purgatory and heaven.

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