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The article presents information on Virgil, who is known as Rome's greatest poet. Virgil was born in 70 B.C. in the countryside near Mantua, Italy, to a family of small farmers. His father sent him away for education, first at Cremona, and later at Milan and Naples in Italy. It is stated that in the forty years from his birth until 30 B.C., Virgil witnessed that Rome was continuously agitated by civil wars.