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What year did Augustus commission Virgil to write The Aeneid?

I know Virgil wrote it at the end of his life, some time before 19 BC, but does anyone know the exact year?

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  • Jim L
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I have calculated using the tradition that he wrote an average of three lines a day, that it took him slightly more than nine years. So, 28 or 29 BC.

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