Virgilius

"Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque" 

(“Time takes everything away, even memory.”)

On 21th September 19 BC Publius Virgilius Maro died in Brindisi. He was a poet and author of the Aeneid. Virgilius was just returning from a trip to Greece where he hoped to complete what later became his most famous work. On the way back to Rome he had joined the Emperor Augustus who was returning from the East.

He died perhaps from the consequences of a sunstroke but this is just one of the many hypotheses.

It is said that before dying the poet asked his friends and companions Vario Rufus and Plotius Tucca to destroy the manuscript of the Aeneid, because it had not yet been revised, but shortly afterwards they handed it over to Augustus who had it published.