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24 Soldiers Seize Virgil’s Lands Soldiers seize Virgil’s lands whose restoration lies a journey to Rome and two poems farther on The length of his stay there and how long the civil war detained him from writing poetry remains unrecorded From his Spanish campaign Emperor Augustus sends for the manuscript of the Aeneid which was read to him four years later on his deathbed Virgil repeatedly sent for the manuscript of the Aeneid— to destroy it— it was not provided him ...

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