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CHASE AND STUART'S CLASSICAL SERIES.

SIX BOOKS

OF THE

ENEID OF VIRGIL

With Explanatory Notes and a Vocabulary.

BY

THOMAS CHASE, LL. D.,

M. A. OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

PRESIDENT OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL
AND AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES, ETC.

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HARVARD
BOLLEBE
LIBRARY
Exchange

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
ELDREDGE & BROTHER,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

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PREFACEЕ.

THE text of first Six By edition of the whole poem.

HE text of the first Six Books of the Aeneid here given,

It is based upon a careful collation of the editions of Heyne, Wagner, Conington, Ribbeck, and Ladewig, with frequent reference to other standard authorities, and with constant and especial regard to the testimony of the best manuscripts. In the preparation of the Notes, the endeavor has been made to meet the actual wants of students in our schools; not forgetting that the best help one can give a learner is to teach him to help himself. Frequent references are made to the grammars most in use in this country, and explanations are furnished of passages difficult of interpretation, of peculiarities of syntax, and of such points of history, geography, mythology, and antiquities as require elucidation. In the Vocabulary, which I have prepared at the suggestion of many experienced and accomplished teachers, it is believed that a complete statement will be found of the Virgilian uses of each word, so far as the first Six Books of the Aeneid are concerned. The chief difficulties in scanning are solved in the Metrical Index; and in the Remarks which follow, information will be found on some points of classical versification which are not fully explained in our popular grammars. The Index of Proper Names adds some facts to those stated in the Notes and Vocabulary; and beginners may read with profit the Suggestions to Students on the 334th page.

It will be seen that, in addition to the results of my own independent investigations, I have availed myself of the rich

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