He was a youth of great promise, and was destined to succeed his father-in-law, but he died of fever at the age of 20 in 23 B.C., amidst universal grief.
NOTES TO BOOK SEVEN I.'Thou too, Caieta,' that is to say, as well as Misenus and Palinurus, mentioned in the last book.

Caieta gave her name to the town and promontory which were on the confines of Latium and Campania.
II.

'The coast, where Circe'-- Virgil identifies 'the island of Aeaea,' the dwelling-place of Circe in Homer, with the promontory of Circeii in Italy.
VI.

'Say, Erato:' Erato was the Muse of Love, and the invocation is not specially appropriate in this place.

But the line is an imitation of Apollonius Rhodius iii, 1.
'Ausonia,' a poetical name for Italy.