PERSONAL: Full name, Publius Vergilius Maro; also spelled "Virgil," beginning in the fifth century A.D.; born October 15, 70 B.C., in Andes, Cisalpine Gaul; died in 19 BC, in Brundusium; son of a yeoman class farmer.EDUCATION: Studied rhetoric in Rome; studied philosophy in Naples under the Epicurian Siro.CAREER: Poet.

• Eclogae (Eclogues; or Bucolics; title means Selections), composed between 42 and 37 B.C.; translated as The Bucoliks of Publius Virgilius Maro, Prince of all Latine poets, otherwise called his Pastoralls, or shepeherds meetings. Together with his Georgiks or Ruralls, otherwise called his husbandrie, conteyning foure books, by Abraham Fleming, 1589; as The Bucolicks of Virgil, by John Martyn, 1749; as The Eclogues of Virgil in English Verse, by Arthur S. Way, 1932; and as The Pastoral Poems, translated by E. V. Rieu, 1949.
• Georgica (Georgics; title means Points of Farming), composed between 37 and 30 B.C.; translated as Virgil's Georgicks, by Thomas May, 1628; as The Georgicks of Virgil, by John Martyn, 1741; as The Georgicks of Virgil in English Verse, translated by Arthur S. Way, 1912.
• Aeneis (The AeneidAeneid; epic poem in twelve books), between 31 and 19 B.C.; translated as Eneydos, by William Caxton, 1490; translated as Eneados, by Gawin Douglas, 1553; partially translated as The Aeneid, Books II and IV, by Henry Howard, 1557; partially translated as The Aeneis of P. Virgilius Maro, Books I-IV, by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582; translated by William Morris as The Aeneid, 1876; translated as The Aeneid of Virgil in English Verse, by Arthur S. Way, 1916; translated as The Aeneid of Virgil, by Rolphe Humphries, 1951; as The Aeneid: An Epic Poem of Rome, by L. R. Lind, 1962; as The Aeneid, by Kevin Guinagh, 1970; as The Aeneid of Virgil, by Allen Mandelbaum, 1971; as The Aeneid of Virgil, by R. D. Williams, 1972-73; as The Aeneid, by Robert Fitzgerald, 1981.
COLLECTIONS IN TRANSLATION
• The Works of P. Vergilius Maro, translated by John Ogilby, 1649.
• The Works of Virgil: containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis,Works of Virgil: containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis, translated by John Dryden, 1697.
• The Works of Virgil (The Aeneis,Ae neis, translated by Christopher Pitt; The EcloguesEclogues and Georgics, translated by Joseph Warton), 1753.
• The Poems of Virgil, translated by John Con ington, 1872.
• The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil,Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, translated by Thomas Fletcher Royds.
• Virgil, prose translation by John Jackson, 1908.
• Virgil, two volumes, translated by Henry Rushton Fairclough, 1916-18.
• The Poems of Virgil, verse translation by J ames Rhoads, 1921.
• Virgil's Works: The Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics, translated by John William Mackail, 1934.
• The Eclogues and the Georgics, tr anslated by R. C. Trevelyan, 1944.
• The Singing Farmer, translated by L. A. S. J ermyn, 1947.
• Selections from the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, translated by W. F. Jackson Knight, 1949.
• The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid of Virgil,Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid of Virgil, translated by C. Day Lewis, 1966.
• Virgil's works have also been translated into French; the oldest surviving copies of his manuscripts are stored in the Vatican Library and the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy.