| A | B |
|---|
| 70 BC | birth of V |
| publius | V's first name |
| andes | V's birthplace |
| farmer | V's father |
| mantua | city near Andes; where V first attended school |
| cremona | second city where V went to school (58 BC) |
| Milan | third city where V went to school (54 BC) |
| Rome | last city where V went to school (53 BC) |
| 53 BC | year V went to Rome |
| grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, etc. | subjects V studied |
| toga virilis | adult male clothing which V got in 55 BC |
| 41 BC | V's farm confiscated |
| Maecenas | literary patron; helped V get his farm back |
| 19 BC | V died |
| Brundisium | where V died |
| Naples | where V was buried |
| culex | a minor poem of V |
| eclogues | group of V's poems ("selections" or "bucolic" poems) |
| georgics | poems about farm life |
| Theocritus | Greek poet who inspired V's Eclogues |
| hesiod | poet who inspired the georgics |
| aeneid | modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey |
| 10 | years it took V to write the Aeneid |
| 50 | number of unfinished lines in the Aeneid |
| 12 | number of books in the Aeneid |
| sortes vergilianae | the aeneid as a "horoscope" |
| virga | wand |
| chaucer, ariosto, milton, shakespeare, etc. | poets who were influenced by V |
| dante | poet who was "guided" by V |
