of Virgil is preserved, in which he says, "with respect to my Aeneas, if it were in a fit shape for thy reading, I would gladly send the poem; but the thing is only just begun; and indeed it seems something like folly to have undertaken 80 great a work, especially when, as thou knowest. I am applying to it other studies, and those of much greater importance."

The following inscription is said to have been placed on Virgil's tomb:

"Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc

Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces."

Vesta, goddess of the fixed hearth and its fire, as the centre of household life, and, in a wider sense, of the state as a permanent community of households. Fire and water, as great essentials of domestic life, were used in her service. She is naturally associated closely with the Penates. Her name, like the Greek 'Eoría, is derived from a root (represented in Sanscrit by vas,) signifying to dwell, to abide.

SUGGESTIONS TO STUDENTS.

THE arrangement of words in Latin poetry being more complicated than in prose, care is needed, in translating, to select first the subject of the sentence, then the modifiers of the subject, then the verb, with its object, and whatever modifiers of the predicate may be attached. In inaking these selections, it will be necessary to observe closely the significance of the terminations which distinguish different cases, numbers, genders, persons, moods, and tenses.

The syntax of Virgil differs in some points from that of Caesar and Cicero e. g. in the omission of prepositions both before the acc. in answer to the question whither, and before the abl. in answer to the questions where and whence; secondly, in a fondness for the use of the dative, to express various relations somewhat indirectly or delicately, which are expressed more simply in ordinary prose by other constructions; thirdly, in the frequent use of the indic., for liveliness, instead of the subj., in conditional sentences; fourthly, in the use of the infinitive to denote purpose or result; fifthly, the frequent use of the genitive of specification with adjectives.

The delicate beauty of the use of the dat. of advantage instead of the bald abl. of separation, may be seen in Ecl. IV. 41, and VII. 47, where Conington strangely thinks that the dat. is "almost undistinguishable from the abl. To speak of taking something away "to the advantage of," "to the comfort of," or "in behalf of" a person, is certainly more significant than to say simply to take from. See my note on I. 92, p. 147, and on I. 102.

Caesar's Commentaries,

First Six Books of Eneid,

Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics,

Virgil's Eneid,

Cicero's Select Orations,

Horace's Odes, Satires, and Epistles,

Cicero De Senectute, et De Amicitia,
Sallust's Catiline et Jugurtha,

Cornelius Nepos,

Cicero De Officiis,

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations,

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