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A 3rd-century Tunisian mosaic of Virgil seated between Clio and Melpomene (from Hadrumetum [Sousse]). Preserved in the Bardo National Museum, Tunis.
Between 42 and 19 BCE Publius Vergilius Maro composed the Ecologues, the Georgics, dying before the Aeneid was complete. Virgil's (Vergil's) writings were widely copied in the Middle Ages. Manuscripts of his poems are among the earliest surviving literary codices in Latin.
