In Rome he studied rhetoric under Epidius and learned from Siro the Epicurean, expressing his amazement at the city through the character of Tityrus.  
In Rome he studied rhetoric under Epidius and learned from Siro the Epicurean, expressing his amazement at the city through the character of Tityrus.  Among his minor works are the short epics Ciris and Culex and a didactic poem on volcanism, Aetna.  He advised farmers to "First find your bees a settled sure abode/Where neither winds can enter" in the fourth Georgic, and prophesized the birth of a "miraculous child" in his fourth Eclogue.  FTP, name this author who wrote of "arms and the man" and such characters as Dido and Anchises in the Aeneid.
In Rome he studied rhetoric under Epidius and learned from Siro the Epicurean, expressing his amazement at the city through the character of Tityrus.  
Virgil or Publius Vergilius Maro