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===by Virgil===
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}}[[wikipedia:Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]] (70 &ndash; 19 BCE), commonly known as Virgil, was a Roman poet born in Cisalpine, Gaul, on the side of the Alps closest to Rome. His family was well-off, enabling his studies at Cremona and Milan, as well as Rome and Naples, the latter under the Epicurean philosopher Siro.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-3090 "Virgil"] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> When land was confiscated following the battle of Phillippi in 42 BCE for the army veterans of Antony and Octavian, Virgil's family lost land.  They were likely compensated, however, with property near Naples.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Virgil’s ''Eclogues'', his first collection of poems, were likely written around that time, perhaps as late as 38 BCE, as the confiscations were a central topic of two of the poems.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2329 "Virgil "] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)</ref> At some later point, Virgil became part of the poetic circle around Maecenas, putting him in close contact with Octavian, the future emperor Augustus.

Virgil published his ''Georgics'' in 29 BCE. Throughout the 20s BCE, both of Virgil's books of poetry were widely read and distributed.<ref>Ibid.</ref> His poems illustrate the greatness of the Roman Empire through “the technical perfection of his verse” and imagery.<ref>"Virgil” in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature''.</ref>

This volume contains the three most important of Virgil’s works: the ''Pastorals'' ("Bucolics" or "Eclogues"), the ''Georgics'', and the ''Aeneid''. The ''Pastorals'' muse on the idyllic life of shepherds in northern Italy.<ref>Virgil, ''Georgics'', trans. Peter Fallon, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), xiv.</ref> The ''Georgics'' are, similarly, meditations on the nature of agriculture. The name "Georgics" refers to the Greek phrase for "working the land" and the word for “farmer.”<ref>Ibid.</ref> Where Virgil's pastoral poems were largely imitative, the focus and depth of his Georgics were unprecedented.<ref>Ibid., xiii.</ref> The ''Aeneid'' is Virgil's great epic, following the tradition of Homer.<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'', ed. Clyde Pharr, (Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2007), 1–4.</ref> The work follows the story of Aeneis, who leaves behind his conquered homeland of Troy and goes on to found the culture that will eventually become Rome. Virgil himself captured the scope of these three works with the inscription on his tombstone, "cecini pascua rura duces" (I sang of farms, fields, and heroes).<ref>Ibid.</ref>

[[File:PVirgiliiMaronisBucolicaGeorgicaEtAeneis1743 Bookplate.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Wythe's bookplate in the [http://www.mountgulian.org/ Mount Gulian Historic Site's] copy. Inscribed by [[wikipedia:Gulian C. Verplanck|Gulian C. Verplanck]]: "This vol. belonged to G. Wythe, Chancellor of Va., one of the signers of Declaration of Independence. It was bought from the library of Th. Jefferson. March 1829."]]
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory|Jefferson inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library|Wythe's library]] as "Virgil. 12mo.", and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. The book was later bought at the 1829 auction of Jefferson's library by [[wikipedia: Gulian C. Verplanck| Gulian C. Verplanck]]. Wythe's copy survives and is owned by the [http://www.mountgulian.org/ Mount Gulian Historic Site] in New York, the Hudson Valley colonial homestead of the Verplanck family. The volume includes Wythe's bookplate, and a handwritten list by Wythe noting references to Homer's ''Iliad''.

[[File:PVirgiliiMaronisBucolicaGeorgicaEtAeneis1743 List.jpg|left|thumb|200px|List of references to Homer's ''Iliad'' in George Wythe's hand, [http://www.mountgulian.org/ Mount Guilian Historic Site's] copy.]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with raised bands on spine.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157660835681161 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991033018235703196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
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*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Known Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
*''[[P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica P. Rami Eloquentiae et Philosophiae|P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica P. Rami Eloquentiae & Philosophiae]]''
*''[[P. Virgilii Maronis Opera]]''
*''[[Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis]]''
*''[[Works of Virgil, Containing His Pastorals, Georgics and Æneis|The Works of Virgil, Containing His Pastorals, Georgics and Æneis]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]
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==External links==
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*[http://www.mountgulian.org/ Mount Gulian Historic Site,] Beacon, New York.
*[http://www.librarything.com/work/51707/details/58042699 P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis,] at LibraryThing.
*Read this book at the [https://archive.org/details/bucolicageorgic00virggoog Internet Archive.]
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