In one work attributed to this author, a gnat is killed after waking a sleeping shepherd but saving him from a snakebite.
In one work attributed to this author, a gnat is killed after waking a sleeping shepherd but saving him from a snakebite. One poem by this author in four sections ends with a discussion on bee-keeping, and this author wrote a collection of ten pastoral poems in the style of Theocritus. This author of the Georgics and Eclogues is more famous for a work concerning a war over the hand of Lavinia between the title character and Turnus. That work earlier features the romance between Dido and the title Trojan prince. For 10 points, identify this Roman poet who was commissioned by Augustus to write his epic poem, The Aeneid.
In one work attributed to this author, a gnat is killed after waking a sleeping shepherd but saving him from a snakebite.
{Vergil}