Ebook: Vergil-Probleme

The studies presented here lead to the result (in accordance
with antique judgments) that the Culex - a children's book
for C.Octavius, who was to become the Emperor Augustus -
and the poems Catalepton 1-8, 10-12 as well are authentic
works of Virgil's; and, moreover, that they are by no means
"triflings of his neoteric youth" but rather prefigure the
whole of Virgil's genius in nuce . In the Fourth Eclogue
the puer M.Marcellus appears as the firstborn and pledge
of a rising world of peace; in the Georgica, in the episode
on the old 'Corycian' , Valerius Cato embodies the charac-
teristics - essential to Virgil -— of labor and contin-
entia . With the opening words of the Aeneis "'Ille ego qui
quondam ...' the poet himself points to the unity and whole-
ness of his life-work just as he does in his epitaph . The
votive epigram Catalepton 14 , authentic too , is a moving
testimony from the last weeks of his life.
Gained by classical methods, the results are supported and
confirmed by a great number of cryptograms in conformity
with secured data of Virgil's biography and of the political
and religious history of his time.