Posted by Mike Bullard on October 06, 1998 at 21:07:50:
In Reply to: bk 1 use of caeser in line 287. julius or augusta? posted by chuck on September 30, 1998 at 05:21:08:
: when jupiter outlines the history of Rome in book one he refers to a caesar. is this julius caesar or caeser augustus? your reasons for believing it is one more than the other please.
When jupiter refers to caesar he is refering to Augustus. Later in the page he statets that this ceaser will bring peace to a time of war, and seeing that Julius was only in office for a few years and there was much bloodshead involved, he probably was not refering to him. In addition Virgil was a friend and client of Augustus, and in fact comissioned by rome to write the Aenid.