Harper & Stereotype Edition. VIRGI L. THE ECLOGUES TRANSLATED BY WRANGHAM, THE GEORGICS BY SOTHEBY, AND THE ENEID BY DRYDEN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET PA 6807 AIW7 1839 v. Copy "VIRGIL is no less admired as a virtuous, ingenious, and judi cious author, than as an incomparable poet and excellent philosopher. His works, which are replete with richness of sentiment, elegance of expression, and a happy intermixture of useful and entertaining precepts and descriptions, will be read and esteemed as long as solid judgment and classical taste remain among mankind; and will moreover honourably transmit the name of their nestimable author to the latest posterity."-MELMOTH The following translation of the ECLOGUES has been revised and corrected by Archdeacon WRANGHAM, who has also supplied many valuable notes, chiefly collected from Martyn, Penn, &c. The GEORGICS are reprinted from the last edition of Mr. SOTHEBY'S excellent translation, of which the Editor of the Bibliographical Miscellany speaks in terms of high commendation. "DRYDEN's version of the ENEID is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language."-POPE. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF VIRGIL. VIRGIL was born at a village called Andes, now Petula, near Mantua, on the 15th of October, in the year of Rome 684, during the consulate of Pompey and Crassus. At a very early age Virgil showed marks of a very fine genius, and was sent at twelve years old to study at Cremona, where he remained till seventeen. He then removed to Milan and to Naples, where he pursued his studies with great assiduity, taking care to select the most elegant of the Greek and Roman writers. It appears that his favourite sciences were those of physic and mathematics; and there is no doubt, that to this early tincture of geometrical learning we must attribute that regularity of thought, and propriety of expression, which characterize his writings. After Virgil had completed his studies at Naples, he made a journey to Rome, where he was introduced to Augustus, who procured for him some appointment in the royal |