2018.09.21
We commemorate today the sad anniversary of Virgil’s death. Everybody knows the famous epitaph:
Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, nunc tenet
Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces.
“Mantua gave birth to me, (the) Calabrians killed me, Parthenope now / holds me; I sang of pastures, plowlands, and leaders.”
But could it be that this simple couplet secretly reestablishes the truth about the death of the poet, and even informs us about the identity of his murderer?