Reading notes

• The Aeneid §10.207 Mincius

  River of the Po valley flowing from Lake Garda past Mantua.

• The Eclogues §7.12 Mincius

  The river of Virgil's native district near Mantua; it fringes the meadow of the contest in Eclogue 7.

• The Georgics §3.15 Mincius

  The river of Mantua, by which the poet will raise his imagined temple to Caesar.