Mantŭa | Mantŭānus, a, um (noun F) :
* A city of Gallia Transpadana, on the Mincius, in whose vicinity was Andes, the birthplace of Virgil, still called Mantua, Plin. 3, 19, 23, § 130; Liv. 24, 10, 7; Verg. A. 10, 200: Mantua Vergilio gaudet,Ov. Am. 3, 15, 7; Sil. 8, 595.— Hence
* Adj., of or belonging to Mantua or to Virgil, Mantuan, Virgilian: fama,Stat. S. 4, 7, 26: Maro,Min. Fel. Octav. 19: vates,Mart. Cap. 2, § 212; also called Mantuanus Homerus,Macr. S. 1, 16; and Mantuanus,id. ib. 5, 1: carmina,Virgil's poems,Sol. 46.