Editing Virgil (section)

===Early works===
{{Main article| Appendix Vergiliana}}
According to the commentators, Virgil received his first education when he was five years old and later went to [[Cremona]], [[Milan]], and finally [[Rome]] to study [[rhetoric]], [[medicine]], and [[astronomy]], which he would abandon for philosophy. From Virgil's admiring references to the [[neoteric]] writers [[Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)|Pollio]] and [[Helvius Cinna|Cinna]], it has been inferred that he was, for a time, associated with [[Catullus]]'s neoteric circle. According to the ''[[Appendix Vergiliana#Catalepton ("Trifles")|Catalepton]]'', he began to write poetry while in the [[Epicurean]] school of [[Siro the Epicurean|Siro]] in Naples. A group of small works attributed to the youthful Virgil by the commentators survive collected under the title ''[[Appendix Vergiliana]]'', but are largely considered spurious by scholars. One, the ''Catalepton'', consists of fourteen short poems,<ref name="Fowler, pg.1603" />{{Rp|1602}} some of which may be Virgil's, and another, a short narrative poem titled the ''[[Appendix Vergiliana#Culex ("The Gnat")|Culex]]'' ("The Gnat"), was attributed to Virgil as early as the 1st century AD.