/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Mantuan Swain, Swan, or Bard (The)
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Virgil, a native of Mantua, in Italy. Besides his great Latin epic, he wrote pastorals and Georgics.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.