Re: VIRGIL: What others say about Virgil

[Leofranc Holford-Strevens]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hieronymus
Prechtl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Halifax, Nova Scotia
>October 17, 2:00 pm
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>
>DONATUS: a few things here and there, like that Cicero,  having familiarized
>himself with every nuance of the Bucolics, was so impressed  that he
>declared Virgil  "the second great hope of Rome," as if he himself were the
>first hope of the Latin language and Virgil the second. 

Where does Donatus say that? and what time had Cicero to read even a
single eclogue before being murdered?

Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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