“That delicious Bay
Parthenope’s Domain—Virgilian haunt;
Illustrated with never dying verse
And by the Poet’s laurel-shaded tomb,
Age after age to pilgrims from all lands
Endeared.”
—Wordsworth.
Influence of the Æneid
As to the success of the Æneid, it was immediate with poets and people. Two years after Virgil’s death Horace writes in his Secular Hymn:—
“If Rome be all thy work, if Trojan bands