Also found in his possession were a gold nugget belonging to the pope, a signed check made out to Pope Benedict XVI for 100, 000 euros and an original version of Virgil's Aeneid from 1581.

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" In "Lavinia, " Ursula LeGuin invented the back story of Aeneas's wife in Virgil's "Aeneid.

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In 70 BC, the Roman poet Virgil, author of the Aeneid, was born.

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Professor Levi rightly hands the palm to Dryden (though he also recommends Cecil Day Lewis's tremendous translation of the Aeneid from 1954), but this lends his Virgil an 18th-century air, with Swains and Cotts and woodland Frolicks.

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