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 ; to 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.

CONTENTS

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2

II.

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8

III.

IV.

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VI.

VII.

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16

18

VIII.

IX.

20

22

26

XI.

XII.

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

i. 80-101: The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

iii. 1-30: Epicurus

iii. 894-911: The Fear of Death

v. Catullus, iii : Lesbia's Sparrow

iv: The Yacht

xxxi : Sirmio

xxxiv: A Hymn to Diana

ci : A Brother's Grave

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

ii. 136-76: Italy

ii. 458–540 : The Countryman's

Blessings

iv. 460–527: Orpheus and Eury-

dice

Aeneid ii. 268–369: The Fall of Troy

iv. 571-629: The Trojans sail

from Carthage

vi. 752–892: The Descendants of

Aeneas

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

i. 9 : Winter

i. 22 : Integer Vitae .

iii. 2: The Strenuous Life .

iii. 13 : The Spring of Bandusia

XXII. Tibullus, i. 3, 35-50 : The Age of Saturn

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

iii. 10, 1-18: A Birthday Morning .

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

XXVI. Statius, Siluae v. 4: To Sleep

.

XXX.

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XXXI.

II2

XXXII.

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xxvII. Claudian, Carmina Minora xx : The Old

Yeoman

94

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

Hector and Andromache

96

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

104

447–71 : Psyttaleia

Prometheus Bound, 436–71: Pro-

metheus' Gifts to Men

Agamemnon, 636–80: The Storm

at Sea

116

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

XXXIV.

815-65: Ajax prepares to die 124

Oedipus at Colonus, 1586–1666: The

Passing of Oedipus.

XXXVI. Euripides, Alcestis, 150–98: How Alcestis pre-

pared for Death

134

Medea, 1021-80: Medea nerves

herself to slay her Children 138

Hippolytus, 73-87: An Offering to

Artemis

144

The Trojan Women, 740-79 : Andro-

mache mourns over Astyanax . 146

xl. Simonides : Epitaph on the Athenian Dead

at Plataea

150

: Epitaph on the Spartan Dead

at Plataea

150

XLII. Callimachus : The Dead Scholar .

152

XLIII. Meleager : Love's Garland .

154

XLIV. Ptolemaeus : The Astronomer's Vision .

156

XXXVII.

XXXVIII.

ΚΤΗΜΑ EΣ AEI

B

AEN ,

:

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.