" This poet writes in a pastoral poem that bees "undergo labour, storing their gains for all," and in another work uses apiary similes to describe the construction of a city "whose walls already rise."
A poem by this man claims that "Untended, will the she-goats then bring home / Their udders swollen with milk, while flocks afield / Shall of the monstrous lion have no fear" thanks to a boy who is exhorted "Assume thy greatness, for the time draws nigh." A medieval mode of fortune-telling consisted of picking a random line from this man's longest work. A "child of gods," interpreted by early Christians as Jesus, appears in a work by this man often referred to as "Messianic." This poet writes in a pastoral poem that bees "undergo labour, storing their gains for all," and in another work uses apiary similes to describe the construction of a city "whose walls already rise." For 10 points, name this poet of the Eclogues and the Georgics, the author of Rome's national epic, the Aeneid.
A poem by this man claims that "Untended, will the she-goats then bring home /
Virgil [or Publius Vergilius Maro]