1. Lived among the Mantuans during confiscations

    · Mantua, Lombardy, Italy

    Lived among the Mantuans during confiscations
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    A late biographical-commentary tradition places Virgil among the Mantuans when land was confiscated for veterans after Philippi. This belongs to an interpolated ancient commentary tradition. Modern scholarship questions the biographical reconstruction of Virgil's supposed dispossession.

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