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Updated: June 10, 2025

A tradition, which the dates make improbable, was that Gaius Octavius, afterwards the Emperor Augustus, was for a time his fellow-scholar under the rhetorician Epidius. In the classroom of the Epicurean Siro he may have made his first acquaintance with the poetry of Lucretius. For the next ten years we know nothing of Virgil's life, which no doubt was that of a profound student.

J. W. (John William) Mackail - Latin Literature

Of all Borgognone's pictures in the Certosa I should select the altar-piece of S. Siro with S. Lawrence and S. Stephen and two Fathers of the Church, for its fusion of this master's qualities. The Certosa is a wilderness of lovely workmanship.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series