Virgil
Subtitle: Aeneid Book VIII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Contributors: K. W. Gransden (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 30, 1976
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780521290470
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; General; Language Arts & Disciplines; Latin; Language; Rome; Legends; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Latin poetry; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Collections : Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Epic poetry, Latin; Aeneas (Legendary character); Poetry
First sentence: most ancient areas of the Romulean city, linking them and giving them (characteristically) a pre-Romulean aetiology. According to Tacitus (Ann. 12.24) the limits of the Romulean city, the pomerium, could be credibly reconstructed: 'sed initium condendi, et quod pomerium Romulus posuerit, noscere haud absurdum reor.