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Excerpt from The Eclogues, Georgics, and Moretum of Virgil: With Explanatory Notes and a LexiconThe most finished work of Virgil, his Georgica, an agricultu ral poem, was undertaken at the suggestion of Maecenas. Its object was to recommend the principles of the ancient Romans, their love of home, of labor, of piety, and order, to magnify their domestic happiness and greatness, to make men proud of their country on better grounds than the mere...

Excerpt from Virgil, Vol. 1 of 2: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-Vi Puauus aeruus Mano was born October 15, 70 D.C., at Andes, a district near Mantua. He was of rustic parentage, and brought up in the bush and forest, 1 but his father gave him a careful edu cation, first at Cremona, then at Milan, and lastly at Rome. In the capital he studied especially under Epidius the rhetorician, and Siro, a distinguished Epicurean. About the Publisher Fo...

Excerpt from Publii Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum Libri Quatuor: The Georgicks of Virgil, With an English Translation and NotesThose who have been accustomed to see the noble art of Husbandry committed to the management of the meanest people, may think the majestic style which Vir gil has used not well adapted to thesubject.' But the poet wrote for the delight and instruction of a people, whose dictators and consuls had been husbandmen, His exp...

Excerpt from The Works of Virgil, Vol. 3: With English Notes, Original and Selected, Aeneid, Liber VII.-XIITu vatam, tu diva, mone. Bicam horrida bella Bicam acies, actosque animis in funera reges, Tyrrhenamque manum, totamque sub arma coactam Hesperiam. Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo, Majus opus moveo. Rex arva Latinus et urbes Jam senior longa placidas in pace regebat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...

Excerpt from L'Énéide, Vol. 1Une des qualités les plus indispensables de l'épopée c'est, que le sujet en soit natio nal. Les besoins de la vanité ne sont ni les moins sentis ni es moins communs. Les peuples sont comme les particuliers et les familles: tous entendent avec plaisir l'histoire de leurs ayeux ou de leurs fondateurs, comme un enfant voit avec plus d'intérêt la maison paternelle et ses terres patrimoniales que les plus belles possess...

This is primarily a textbook for university students and sixth-formers, but it also contains material which may be of interest to students of English and comparative literature.

Excerpt from Virgil's Æneid: Book IBithynia. In Rome he studied under the rhetorician Epidius, and under Syro the Epicurean, an accomplished teacher of philosophy and natural science. The Epicurean tenets of Syro tinge Virgil's earlier productions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten...

Excerpt from The Aeneid of Virgil, Vol. 1 of 2: With a TranslationBy Heaven's rude arm, through Juno's brooding ire, And war-worn long ere building for his Gods 5 A Home in Latium whence the Latin race.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to dig...

Excerpt from Virgil in English Rhythm: With Illustrations From the British Poets, From Chaucer to CowperShall ever be a god to me his altar oft IO A tender lambkin from our folds shall steep. He hath allowed my kine to rove at large As thou perceivest - and myself to play What [airs] I list upon my rural reed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

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Excerpt from Vergil: The Eclogues It is certain that Vergil was well read in Alexandrian literature, and his debt to Theocritus is evident in every page of the Eclogues. The whole form and structure of the Eclogue was based on that of the Idyll 3 but whereas the form and plan of Theocritus' pastorals Sprang directly from the nature of his subject-matter, with Vergil they generally became a mere literary fiction, a conventional dress, which to...

Excerpt from The Sixth Book of the Aeneid: With Introduction and Notes See notes on 4311-4 and p. 13. 2 See notes on 612, 613 and 621, 622. 3 8. 626 to end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving...

Excerpt from P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Vol. 2: Notes Hyblaeis, the bees of Hybla in Sicily were famous, and this is what is called the 'literary' use of epithets: wine is called 'massie' or 'falernian', marble is 'parian', the arrow is 'cydonian', the bow is 'parthian', &c., Not so much to specify the kind, as to remind the reader of the Greek poets who speak of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of ra...

Excerpt from P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Vol. 2: Notes 6. Deus. Virgil here strikes the first note of that worship of the Emperor which characterised the age and its poetical expression. See Sellar, Virgil, eh. I. Pp. 14 - 21. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state...

Excerpt from P. Virgilii Maronis, Bucolica, Georgica, Et Æneis: With English Notes, Prepared for the Use of Classical Schools and Colleges In our common classical schools, too few pupils possess a Classical Dictionary, and those who have one, can hard 1y be induced to make such use of it as shall enable them to understand all the allusions in the text. The book is a cumbrous one, and they will not consult it often enough as a separate work, t...

Excerpt from Virgil's Aeneid, Vol. 2: With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary It will be noticed that less help than is usual in simila1 edi tions is given in the way of translation of passages. Instead of this, special care has been taken with the vocabulary, that it may be not merely complete and accurate, but such as to enable the student to render his author neatly and with suit able diction. That the Vocabulary covers six books of the A...

Excerpt from The Aeneid of Virgil: Book III The editing of this and some other books of the Aeneid was originally undertaken by an accomplished scholar, who, however, found himself unable, for reasons of an official nature, to complete the task. His notes were placed in my hands by the General Editor, and as they were in a more or less finished condition it appeared that there would be little left for me but to supply Intro duction and Append...

Excerpt from Aeneid IX Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope cecini pascua, rura, duces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfectio...

Excerpt from Aeneid: Books IX., X., A Vocabulary and Test Papers The Text {is/in all cases accompanied by Introduction and Notes, books marked contain also an alphabetical Lexicon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstr...

Excerpt from The Works of Virgil, Vol. 2: Aeneid, Liber I.-Vi Hic currus fuit: hoc regfigm dea gentibus essey Si qua fata sinaut, jam tum tendite fovetque. Progeniem sed en'un Trojan'o a sanguinq duci.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology...