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Title: The Aeneid of Virgil
Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
Author: Virgil
Editor: Ernest Rhys
Illustrator: Maine J. P.
Translator: Edward Fairfax Taylor
Release Date: May 28, 2006 [EBook #18466]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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THE AENEID OF VIRGIL
THE SAGES OF OLD LIVE AGAIN IN US.
GLANVILL
The AENEID OF VIRGIL
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY
E. FAIRFAX TAYLOR
LONDON: PUBLISHED by J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
AND IN NEW YORK BY E. P. DUTTON & CO.
_First issue of this Edition 1907._
_Reprinted 1910._
INTRODUCTION
Virgil--Publius Vergilius Maro--was born at Andes near Mantua, in the year 70 B.C. His life was uneventful, though he lived in stirring times, and he passed by far the greater part of it in reading his books and writing his poems, undisturbed by the fierce civil strife which continued to rage throughout the Roman Empire, until Octavian, who afterwards became the Emperor Augustus, defeated