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The sixth Eclogue begins with an allusion to it: Prima Syracusio dignata est ludere versu Nostra, nec erubuit silvas habitare Thalia. Cum canerem reges et proelia, Cynthius aurem Vellit et admonuit, pastorem Tityre pinguis Pascere oportet oves, deductum dicere carmen. This may be paraphrased: "My first song the Culex was a pastoral strain.
Vergil's own words would imply that his early effort centered about Aeneas' wars in Italy; the sixth Eclogue, Cum canerem reges et proelia, is rather explicit on this point. It is, however, in reading the first and fifth books that I think we may profit most by keeping in mind the fact that the poet had begun the Aeneid before Caesar's death.
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