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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.
"Interea cursus, quos prima a parte juventae, Quosque ideo consul virtute animoque petisti, Hos retine atquae auge famam laudesque bonorum." To Atticus, ii. 3. Iliad, vi. 442. Lord Derby's translation. To Atticus, ii. 5. The consulship of Caesar was the last chance for the Roman aristocracy. He was not a revolutionist. Revolutions are the last desperate remedy when all else has failed.
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