GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERGIL.

It is not the object of the present work to give a complete life of Vergil, but rather to present the material in outline in such form that the student may most easily obtain for himself the facts in the poet's life and the opinions of other writers. It is thus intended to encourage the student to read widely in the literature which clusters around the works of Vergil, a literature so extensive that, as Burmann

has said, a volume would be required merely to name all the books that have been written. Perhaps no author will better repay a wide study of this nature than Vergil; and no school should be without its well-selected Vergilian library. The following is an alphabetical list of the books mentioned in this Bibliography, the more important of which are printed in black-faced type.'

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