VIRGIL

AENEID IV

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND

VOCABULARY

BY

C. E. FREEMAN

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1917

PREFACE

THIS edition of the Fourth Book of the Aeneid is intended chiefly for those who have little knowledge of Virgil. The notes, therefore, are short and simple, and though they are sufficient, I hope, to explain everything that can fairly give difficulty, they contain no discussions of doubtful readings or interpretations. The Oxford text has been followed without any alteration.

The only commentary that I have consulted in writing the notes is that of Prof. Conington, but I may be under other obligations of which I am unconscious; with regard to the Introduction my debt to Prof. Sellar is as obvious as it is great.

My best thanks are due to Mr. M. T. Tatham for reading and criticizing the Introduction and Notes.

C. E. FREEMAN.

Oxford, 1916.