I have not ventured to alter any of them where they chanced to disagree with the Oxford Text. My hearty thanks are due to all who have allowed me to borrow their translations, and to all who have helped with suggestions and criticisms, and in particular to Mr. J. H. Vince, who has written versions of three pieces for this volume. Further, I must offer my thanks to Mr. Milford for allowing me the use of the Oxford Classical Texts, and of the new edition of Mr. Rhoades's Virgil; to the Cambridge University Press as proprietors of Jebb's Sophocles and Walter Headlam's Book of Greek Verse; to Messrs. Allen & Unwin for the translations from Euripides and Aeschylus by Professor Murray; to Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for pieces taken from Goldwin Smith's Bay Leaves and from Edmund Morshead's Aeschylus; to Mr. John Murray for a passage from Lord Derby's Iliad and one from Mr. Mackail's Latin Literature; Messrs. G. Bell & Sons for the translations by Calverley, Conington, and Mr. R. K. Davis; to Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons for that by Sir G. K. Rickards; and to Messrs. Longmans Green & Co. for two extracts from Whitelaw's Sophocles and two from Mr. Mackail's prose version of the Georgics.

CHARTERHOUSE, GODALMING.

July 1921.

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CONTENTS

1. Lucretius, i. 1-40: Proem, to Venus

IV.

i. 80-101: The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

iii. 1-30 Epicurus

iii. 894-911: The Fear of Death

v. Catullus, iii: Lesbia's Sparrow

VIII.

IX.

xxxiv: A Hymn to Diana

ci: A Brother's Grave

x. Virgil, Georgic i. 311-50: The Storm

ii. 458-540: The Countryman's

Blessings

iv. 460-527: Orpheus and Eury-

dice

Aeneid ii. 268-369: The Fall of Troy

XV.

iv. 571-629: The Trojans sail

from Carthage

vi. 752-892: The Descendants of

Aeneas

XVII. Horace, Odes i. 5: Boy and Girl

30

36

50

56

68

XXII. Tibullus, i. 3, 35-50:

XXIII. Propertius, i. 20, 33-50: Hylas

XXIV.

The Spring of Bandusia

The Age of Saturn

78

80

xxv. Ovid, Amores iii. 9: On the Death of Tibullus .

XXVI. Statius, Siluae v. 4: To Sleep

86

92

XXVII. Claudian, Carmina Minora xx: The Old

PAGE

96

XXVIII. Homer, Iliad vi. 390-502: The Parting of

Hector and Andromache

xxix. Aeschylus, The Persians, 353-432: Salamis

XXXIII. Sophocles, Ajax, 646–92: A Speech of Ajax .

XXXIV.

XXXV.

I12

116

120

815-65: Ajax prepares to die 124

Oedipus at Colonus, 1586-1666: The

Passing of Oedipus .

xxxvi. Euripides, Alcestis, 150-98: How Alcestis pre-

128

134

138

144

146

150

150

XL. Simonides: Epitaph on the Athenian Dead

XLII. Callimachus: The Dead Scholar

XLIII. Meleager: Love's Garland .

INDEX OF AUTHORS

INDEX OF TRANSLATORS

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де

Proem, to Venus

ENEADVM genetrix, hominum diuumque uoluptas,

alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa

quae mare nauigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur uisitque exortum lumina solis : te, dea, te fugiunt uenti, te nubila caeli aduentumque tuum, tibi suauis daedala tellus summittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum. nam simul ac species patefactast uerna diei et reserata uiget genitabilis aura fauoni, aeriae primum uolucres te, diua, tuumque significant initum perculsae corda tua ui. inde ferae pecudes persultant pabula laeta et rapidos tranant amnis: ita capta lepore te sequitur cupide quo quamque inducere pergis. denique per maria ac montis fluuiosque rapaces frondiferasque domos auium camposque uirentis omnibus incutiens blandum per pectora amorem efficis ut cupide generatim saecla propagent. quae quoniam rerum naturam sola gubernas nec sine te quicquam dias in luminis oras exoritur neque fit laetum neque amabile quicquam, te sociam studeo scribendis uersibus esse quos ego de rerum natura pangere conor Memmiadae nostro, quem tu, dea, tempore in omni omnibus ornatum uoluisti excellere rebus.

quo magis aeternum da dictis, diua, leporem. effice ut interea fera moenera militiai

per maria ac terras omnis sopita quiescant.