place
Mantua
Virgil's home city in Cisalpine Gaul, caught up in the confiscations because it lay too near Cremona (Eclogue 9).
Reading notes
- The Aeneid §10.201 Mantua
City of the Po valley (Virgil's homeland), founded by Ocnus.
- The Eclogues §9.27 Mantua
Virgil's home city in Cisalpine Gaul, caught up in the confiscations because it lay too near Cremona (Eclogue 9).
- The Georgics §2.198 Mantua
Virgil's home district, here the 'unhappy' land of lost swan-fed meadows.