Copa

A short poem of thirty-eight lines in elegiac verse, ascribed to Vergil by Charisius. In it the writer invites his friend to spend the heated hours of the day in a rustic arbour, where wine, fruit, and pleasant company await him under the care of mine hostess (copa), who is described as dancing to the castanets (crotala). The style resembles Vergil's, though the tone is much more sprightly. See Ilgen, Animadversationes in Virgilii Copam (Halle, 1820); Birt, Historia Hexam. Lat. (Bonn, 1876); Egli, Pseudo-Vergil. Gedichte (Leipzig, 1886); and Leo's edition (Berlin, 1891).