Virgil and other Latin poets
By: edited by J.B. Greenough, G.L. Kittredge, Thornton Jenkins.
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Catullus, Gaius Valerius.; Horace.; Greenough, J. B. 1833-1901, ed.; Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941, joint ed.; Jenkins, Thornton, b. 1873, joint ed.
Publisher: Ginn and Company
Published: 1930
Place of publication: [Boston; New York, etc.]
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Aeneas (Legendary character) -- Poetry.
Other titles: Bimillennial Virgil.
Description: "In this new edition, which is offered as a modest tribute on the bimillennial anniversary of Virgil's birth, part one contains books I-VI of the Aeneid, followed by a full summary of books VII-XII ... The second part includes not only about four hundred lines from Ovid's Metamorphoses but also some of the best passages in the Fasti and the Tristia, as well as one extract from the Epistles from Pontus and two from the Heroides ... Extracts from Catullus are also included and a number of the most celebrated odes of Horace."--Preface.
Notes: At head of title: The bimillennial Virgil.
"In this new edition, which is offered as a modest tribute on the bimillennial anniversary of Virgil's birth, part one contains books I-VI of the Æneid, followed by a full summary of books VII-XII ... The second part includes not only about four hundred lines from Ovid's Metamorphoses but also some of the best passages in the Fasti and the Tristia, as well as one extract from the Epistles from Pontus and two from the Heroides ... Extracts from Catullus are also included and a number of the most celebrated odes of Horace."--Pref.