The Aeneid of Virgil, by Virgil, Translated

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Title: The Aeneid of Virgil

Author: Virgil

Release Date: August 29, 2007 [eBook #22456]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note:

Numbers in brackets [ ] refer to line numbers in Virgil's Aeneid. These numbers appeared at the top of each page of text and have been retained for reference.

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text.

THE AENEID OF VIRGIL

Translated into English

J. W. MACKAIL, M.A. Fellow Of Balliol College, Oxford

London MacMillan and Co. 1885

Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh.

PREFACE

There is something grotesque in the idea of a prose translation of a poet, though the practice is become so common that it has ceased to provoke a smile or demand an apology. The language of poetry is language in fusion; that of prose is language fixed and crystallised; and an attempt to copy the one material in the other must always count on failure to convey what is, after all, one of the most ess

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