Words and the poet : characteristic techniques of style in Vergil's Aeneid
This book identifies and categorizes such diction in Vergil, but more importantly it shows how such comparatively unpromising material is converted by the poet's methods of 'combination' (iunctura) into poetry
vi, 209 pages
9780198152613, 0198152612
1006159860
This 1998 paperback ed has its own preface
In English with quotations in Latin and Greek