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Virgil’s genius was quickly recognized and his later career, as well as that of his friend Horace, was partly fostered by the proverbially rich Maecenas, an ardent patron of the arts.

Horace had then risen, in spite of all detraction, to the first place among the Roman poets ; Virgil, whose claims he would have been the last to dispute, had been cut off two years before.