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But by failing to make this simple assumption naturally due any and every poet readers of Vergil have needlessly marred the effect of some of his finest passages. The fifth Eclogue, written probably in 41 B.C., is a very melodious Daphnis-song that has always been a favorite with poets. It has been and may be read with entire pleasure as an elegy to Daphnis, the patron god of singing shepherds.
If the Daphnis-song is an elegy written at his death and it would be difficult to find a more fitting subject the poem, undoubtedly one of the most charming of Vergil's Eclogues, was composed in 41 B.C. It were a pity if Vergil's prayer for the poet should after all not come true: Semper honos, nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.
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