A Trojan survivor is driven across the Mediterranean to found the city that will become Rome, losing almost everyone he loves on the way. Virgil worked on it for eleven years, left it unfinished, and asked on his deathbed that it be burned; Augustus overruled him.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Aeneid shares wording with 1 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
field: Thou, when thy riper years shall send thee forth To toils of war, be mindful of my worth; Assert thy birthright, and in arms be known, For Hector’s nephew, and Aeneas’ sonBook 12 and Life 2
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: John Dryden, 1697. Source: Gutenberg 228.
The text here is John Dryden’s translation of 1697, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 228, set unaltered. Dryden heads each book with a prose argument of his own, which is printed at the head of the book and labelled as his.
Dryden put it into rhyming couplets, which Virgil did not use and English readers expected; the line breaks and the couplets are as he set them.
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