New Edition, Rebised and Improbed
WITH COPIOUS ADDITIONAL NOTES

LONDON
CROSBY LOCKWOOD & CO.
7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL

1878

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF RAVENSWORTH,

A DISTINGUISHED AND SUCCESSFUL TRANSLATOR OF

VIRGIL'S ÆNEID, AND AN ELEGANT AND ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR,

THIS EDITION OF VIRGIL'S ÆNEID

IS INSCRIBED BY PERMISSION BY HIS MOST RESPECTFUL AND

GRATEFUL SERVANT

T. H. L. LEARY D.C.L. ( Oxon.)

Oct. 1877.

PREFACE.

The aim of the Editor of this edition of Virgil's Æneid is to be of real service to the young in studying one of the most

NOTICE.—For the convenience of Schools and Classes, this

New and much Enlarged Edition of VIRGIL'S Æ NEID

Æneid.

In some cases of textual criticism and interpretation, the Editor has ventured to differ widely even from the most distinguished of his predecessors, but not without diffidence, and only after a most careful deliberation, and with a statement of the grounds on which such difference is made to rest.

An attempt is made throughout these notes by the Editor to

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