For 10 points, name this author of the Eclogues and the Georgics, the Roman poet of the Aeneid.
In one poem by this man, a shepherd escapes being bitten by a snake when he suddenly wakes from a nap near a fountain and kills the title creature. This author of "The Gnat" wrote a work which opens with a lament over one character's loss of a farm and later features a duel in song between Damon and Alphesiboeus, as well as a prediction of the birth of a child heralded as a "great increase of Jove" who Eusebius of Caesarea linked to (*) Jesus Christ. That work, like a four-book didactic poem about agriculture, was written for his patron Maecenas. He extolled the virtue of pietas in his major work, which begins with the line "I sing of arms and the man" and features a katabasis facilitated by the Cumaean Sibyl, which allows its main character to speak to his father Anchises. For 10 points, name this author of the Eclogues and the Georgics, the Roman poet of the Aeneid.
In one poem by this man, a shepherd escapes being bitten by a snake when he suddenly wakes from a nap near a fountain and kills the title creature.
Virgil [or Publius Vergilius Maro]