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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Aeneid of Virgil, by Virgil, Translated by J. W. Mackail
Title: The Aeneid of Virgil
Author: Virgil
Release Date: August 29, 2007 [eBook #22456]
Language: English
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Numbers in the left margin 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
BY
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 essential things in poetry,—its poetical quality. And this is so with Virgil more, perhaps, than with any other poet; for more, perhaps, than any other poet Virgil depends on his poetical quality from first to last. Such a translation can only have the value of a copy of some great painting executed in mosaic, if indeed a copy in Berlin wool is not a closer analogy; and even at the best all it can have to say for itself will be in Virgil's own words, Experiar sensus; nihil hic nisi carmina desunt.
In this translation I have in the main followed the text of Conington and Nettleship. The more important deviations from this text are mentioned in the notes; but I have not thought it necessary to give a complete list of various readings, or to mention any change except where it might lead to misapprehension. Their notes have also been used by me throughout.
Beyond this I have made constant use of the mass of ancient commentary going under the name of Servius; the most valuable, perhaps, of all, as it is in many ways the nearest to the poet himself. The explanation given in it has sometimes been followed against those of the modern editors. To other commentaries only occasional reference has been made. The sense that Virgil is his own best interpreter becomes stronger as one studies him more.
My thanks are due to Mr. Evelyn Abbott, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol, and to the Rev. H. C. Beeching, for much valuable suggestion and criticism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PREFACE |
|
| BOOK FIRST |
The Coming of Aeneas to Carthage |
| BOOK SECOND |
The Story of the Sack of Troy |
| BOOK THIRD |
The Story of the Seven Years' Wandering |
| BOOK FOURTH |
The Love of Dido, and Her End |
| BOOK FIFTH |
The Games of the Fleet |
| BOOK SIXTH |
The Vision of the Under World |
| BOOK SEVENTH |
The Landing in Latium, and the Roll of the Armies of Italy |
| BOOK EIGHTH |
The Embassage to Evander |
| BOOK NINTH |
The Siege of the Trojan Camp |
| BOOK TENTH |
The Battle on the Beach |
| BOOK ELEVENTH |
The Council of the Latins, and the Life and Death of Camilla |
| BOOK TWELFTH |
The Slaying of Turnus |
| NOTES |
THE AENEID
BOOK FIRST
THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE
I sing of arms and the man who of old from the coasts of Troy came, an exile of fate, to Italy and the shore of Lavinium; hard driven on land and on the deep by the violence of heaven, for cruel Juno's unforgetful anger, and hard bestead in war also, ere he might found a city and carry his gods into Latium; from whom is the Latin race, the lords of Alba, and the stately city Rome.
Muse, tell me why, for what attaint of her deity, or in