• His real name was Publius Vergilius Maro
• Virgil was large in person and stature
• He was often sick and spat up blood
• Virgil lost his family when he was full-grown
• his father was blind
• Virgil was also partial to boys
• His work on the Aeneid is sometimes criticized forbeing like Homer's works
• He studied medicince and mathematics
• Virgil was a slow talker but a brillaint mind
• He argued a case once and only once

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