Identifier: aeneidbooki01virg (find matches)
Title: Aeneid, Book I;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Virgil Henderson, John, 1845-1932
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Publisher: Toronto, Copp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and secondly, to arouse an interest in, and a taste for, classicalliterature. While it is the duty of an examiner to ascertain whetherthe student understands the text prescribed, it ought to be the dutyof the intelligent teacher to see that the student appreciates thework he is reading. The editors have sought to aid the teacher in his work byfurnishing the materials in an attractive form. lo JOHN HENDERSON. E. W. Hagarty. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. The Fates . . - - Frontispiece Vergil, Horace, and Varius at the House of Maecenas Qpp. p# v> introduction Helen of Troy . . . . . 0pp. p. xviii, Introduction JUNO ... opp. p. i, Text Juppiter , -■ opp. p. 8, Text Dido Building Karthage opp. p. 14, Text DlANA OF THE HlND ODp. p. l6, Text Aeneas at the Court of Dido .... opp. p. 22. TextA Bacchanal Reclining at a Feast p. i FUNERAL OF HECTOR p. 85 Diana p. 88 EURUS, THE EAST WlND p. 89 Ganymede . . p. 90 Mercury . . . . p. 92 Neptune . . . ...... p. 93 An Amazon . 9 . Q . . . „ . . p. 97
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«3 LIFE OF VERGIL. PubliuS VergiliuS Marol was born on the fifteenth of Birth.October, B.C. 70, in the first consulate of M. Licinius Crassusand Cn. Pompeius, at Andes (now Pietola), a small villagenear Mantua. Since the full franchise was not given to thispart of Gaul (Oallia Transpadana) till some years after-wards2, the poet, like many of his predecessors and contem-poraries in literature, was not a Roman, but an Italianprovincial. The parents of Vergil, like those of Horace, were of ffis Parentsobscure birth. Some authorities say that the poefs fatherwas a potter, others, that he was a brickmaker, while othersagain assert that he was the servant of a travelling merchant,Magius, whose daughter, Magia Polla, he afterwards married.Whatever may have been his occupation, certain it is, thathe was at the time of the poetfs birth, the steward, factor, orpossessor of an estate near Mantua. The childhood ofVergil was passed amid thc hills and woods that fringed theverdant bank

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