Preface.

THIS edition is intended specially for the use of higher Forms in Public Schools. Two books have been chosen, as the amount required for the Oxford and Cambridge Certificate Examination. The notes were originally written for my own use before reading these books with the Sixth Form of Marlborough College; but in the course of teaching I learnt much, and have since remodelled them by the help of this experience.

Some apology is perhaps required for an Editor of Vergil who comes after Conington. No English edition of the poet can compare with his. I have constantly referred to him in the notes, and where I have presumed to differ from him, have generally given his version as an alternative. At the same time, I have found that his very merits-his acuteness, his sublety, his careful discussion of every possible rendering—make him unattractive to schoolboys, who too often content themselves with culling the translations in inverted commas. I have, as a rule, restricted myself to the one interpretation for which there seemed to me to be the best evidence. On the other hand, I have dwelt at greater length on points of syntax and prosody, and on uses and primitive meaning of words. A glance at the Index will show what I have attempted in this direction.

OF

THE AENEID OF VERGIL

EDITED, WITH NOTES

BY

F. STORR, B.A.

CHIEF MASTER OF MODERN SUBJECTS IN MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL, AND LATE ASSISTANT MASTER IN MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE