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Carissimi, This last page exists to add a bit of Vergilian “trivia” and to wish you a fond farewell.

I. //Trivia// A continuation of the //Aeneid // (a thirteenth book also known as the //Supplementum //) was written by Mafeo Vegio (1407-1458) as a kind poetic virtuoso showpiece, it seems to me. The Latin text exists somewhere in cyberspace and there is a lovely little book edited by the eminent Virgilian Michael Putnam, which includes not only “ //Aeneid // XIII” but other short epics perhaps of interest to students of Homer and Vergil. [Mafeo Vegio, //Short Epics //. I Tatti Renaissance Library.(Harvard University Press)]

//II.Farewell// :

 Yes. The road goes on and on:

Hic locus est, partes ubi se via findit in ambas: //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Aeneid //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> VI.540

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Memory takes us back again:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Aeneid //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> I.203

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">I will never forget our time studying Vergil together. Thank you for that precious gift. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Fortunatus magister ego.