VIEGIL, HOEACE AND VAEIUS AT TEE HOUSE OF MAECENAS 

 Photogravure from the Painting by Charles F. Jalabert. 



Maecenas, who was Chancellor of the Roman Empire during the reign of 

 Augustus, was the possessor of great wealth, and, being both epicurean and a 

 scholar, kept an open table for men of genius. Virgil, in the scene depicted 

 here, is giving a private first reading of the Georgics, with Horace and Varius 

 as attentive listeners. The original of this famous painting is in the Gallery 

 of the Luxembourg. 



