The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Virgil (15 Oct 70 BC - 19 BC)

Author of the Aeneid. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-6829?rskey=6ukzit&result=1 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil Authority - ancient
 Relationships: Virgil was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (63 BC-14)
Virgil was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Horace (08 Dec 65 BCE-27 Nov 8 BCE)

 References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) Virgil, Aeneid, 5.157: `nunc una ambae iunctisque ferentur frontibus'