SIX BOOKS OF THE AENEID OF VERGIL Art thou that Vergil then, the mighty spring DANTE, Inferno, I., 79-85. BY WILLIAM R. HARPER, PH.D. PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND FRANK J. MILLER, PH.D. INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NEW YORK: CINCINNATI CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY 4~18.476 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRAN, JUL 12 1910 CAMBRIDGE, MASS Inom the estate of Faiz. 6. R. Greenough Copyright, 1892, by AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY. All rights reserved. Printed by William Tvison New York, U. S. A. PREFACE. THE HE object of a text-book on Vergil should be twofold: to present the facts in the Latinity of the author in as suggestive and accessible a form as possible; and to afford stimulus and material for the study of the poet from a literary point of view. For, on the one hand, the average student of Vergil is still in the formative period of his Latin study, and must devote himself to the most careful grammatical work; while, on the other hand, he is sufficiently advanced to appreciate the beauty of the thoughts and style of such a poet as Vergil, whose every page furnishes ample material for literary study. The present edition of Vergil is designed to meet this twofold object. In the General Introduction there is a series of studies that develop all the important principles of Syntax which are met with in the first six books of the Aeneid. The Introduction also includes a new presentation of the Vergilian verse and principles of quantity. The plan of the studies is inductive throughout, following, as closely as possible, the plan of the earlier books of this series. Although references to the best Grammars of the day are given in the Inductive Studies for purposes of verification, the chief grammatical study on the text is conducted by means of references to these studies themselves. This plan gives the student his grammar, notes, and lexicon, all in one volume. |