Myers Literary Guide:
The North-East
 

HADRIAN (AD 76 - 138)

The founder of Newcastle (Pons Aelius) and instigator of the great Roman Wall was a middling poet, among his other artistic accomplishments. His deathbed poem, which begins: 'Animula, vagula, blandula' is one of the most famous in antiquity.

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