The Æneid of Virgil translated into English prose

A Series of English Texts, edited for use in Elementary and
Secondary Schools, with Critical Introductions, Notes, etc.

16mo Cloth 48 cents each

• Addison’s Sir Roger de Coverley.
• American Democracy from Washington to Wilson.
• American Patriotism in Prose and Verse.
• Andersen’s Fairy Tales.
• Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.
• Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustum.
• Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
• Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
• Bacon’s Essays.
• Baker’s Out of the Northland.
• Bible (Memorable Passages).
• Blackmore’s Lorna Doone.
• Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Abridged.
• Browning’s Shorter Poems.
• Mrs. Browning’s Poems (Selected).
• Bryant’s Thanatopsis, etc.
• Bryce on American Democracy.
• Bulwer-Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii.
• Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.
• Burke’s Speech on Conciliation.
• Burns’ Poems (Selections).
• Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.
• Byron’s Shorter Poems.
• Carlyle’s Essay on Burns.
• Carlyle’s Heroes and Hero Worship.
• Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
• Chaucer’s Prologue and Knight’s Tale.
• * Church’s The Story of the Iliad.
• * Church’s The Story of the Odyssey.
• Churchill’s The Crisis.
• Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner.
• Cooper’s The Deerslayer.
• Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans.
• Cooper’s The Spy.
• Curtis’ Prue and I.
• Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast.
• Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Part I.
• Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Abridged.
• De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
• De Quincey’s Joan of Arc, and The English Mail Coach.
• Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and The Cricket on the Hearth.
• Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
• Dickens’ David Copperfield. (Two vols.)
• Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
• Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite.
• Early American Orations, 1760-1824.
• Edwards’ Sermons.
• Eliot’s Mill on the Floss.
• Eliot’s Silas Marner.
• Emerson’s Essays and Addresses.
• Emerson’s Earlier Poems.
• Emerson’s Representative Men.
• English Essays.
• * English Narrative Poems.
• Epoch-making Papers in U. S. History.
• Franklin’s Autobiography.
• Mrs. Gaskell’s Cranford.
• Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village and Other Poems.
• Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield.
• Gray’s Elegy, etc., and Cowper’s John Gilpin, etc.
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
• * Hale’s The Man Without a Country.
• Hawthorne’s Grandfather’s Chair.
• Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse.
• Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales.
• Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables.
• Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
• Hawthorne’s Twice-told Tales (Selections).
• Hawthorne’s Wonder-Book.
• * Holmes’ Poems.
• Holmes’ Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
• * Homer’s Iliad. (Abridged.)
• * Homer’s Odyssey. (Abridged.)
• Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days.
• Hugo’s Les Miserables. Abridged.
• Huxley’s Selected Essays and Addresses.
• Irving’s Life of Goldsmith.
• Irving’s Knickerbocker’s History.
• Irving’s Sketch Book.
• Irving’s The Alhambra.
• Irving’s Tales of a Traveller.
• * Keary’s Heroes of Asgard.
• à Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ.
• Kingsley’s The Heroes.
• Kingsley’s Westward Ho!
• Lamb’s The Essays of Elia.
• Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare.
• Letters from Many Pens.
• Lincoln’s Addresses, Inaugurals, and Letters.
• Lockhart’s Life of Scott. Abridged.
• * London’s Call of the Wild.
• Longfellow’s Evangeline.
• Longfellow’s Hiawatha.
• Longfellow’s Miles Standish.
• Longfellow’s Miles Standish and Minor Poems.
• Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn.
• Lowell’s The Vision of Sir Launfal.
• Lowell’s Earlier Essays.
• Macaulay’s Essay on Addison.
• Macaulay’s Essay on Hastings.
• Macaulay’s Essay on Lord Clive.
• Macaulay’s Essay on Milton.
• Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome.
• Macaulay’s Life of Samuel Johnson.
• Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur.
• Milton’s Minor Poems.
• Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books I and II.
• Old English Ballads.
• Old Testament Selections.
• * Palgrave’s Golden Treasury.
• Parkman’s Oregon Trail.
• Plutarch’s Lives of Cæsar, Brutus, and Mark Antony.
• Poe’s Poems.
• * Poems, Narrative and Lyrical.
• Pope’s Homer’s Iliad.
• Pope’s Homer’s Odyssey.
• Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.
• Reade’s The Cloister and the Hearth.
• * Representative Short Stories.
• Roosevelt’s Writings (Selected).
• * Rossetti’s (Christina) Selected Poems.
• Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies.
• Ruskin’s The Crown of Wild Olive and Queen of the Air.
• Scott’s Guy Mannering.
• Scott’s Ivanhoe.
• Scott’s Kenilworth.
• Scott’s Lady of the Lake.
• Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel.
• Scott’s Marmion.
• Scott’s Quentin Durward.
• Scott’s Rob Roy.
• Scott’s The Talisman.
• Select Orations.
• Selected Poems, for Required Reading in Secondary Schools.
• Selections from American Poetry.
• * Selections for Oral Reading.
• Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
• Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.
• Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
• Shakespeare’s Henry V.
• Shakespeare’s Julius Cæsar.
• Shakespeare’s King Lear.
• Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
• Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.
• Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
• Shakespeare’s Richard II.
• Shakespeare’s Richard III.
• Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
• Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
• Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
• Shelley and Keats: Poems.
• Sheridan’s The Rivals and The School for Scandal.
• * Short Stories.
• * Short Stories and Selections.
• Southern Orators: Selections.
• Southern Poets: Selections.
• Southey’s Life of Nelson.
• Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book I.
• * Stevenson’s Kidnapped.
• * Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae.
• * Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey, and An Inland Voyage.
• * Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
• Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
• * Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.
• * Tennyson’s In Memoriam.
• * Tennyson’s The Princess.
• * Tennyson’s Shorter Poems.
• Thackeray’s English Humorists.
• Thackeray’s Henry Esmond.
• Thoreau’s Walden.
• * Trevelyan’s Life of Macaulay. Abridged.
• Virgil’s Æneid.
• Washington’s Farewell Address, and Webster’s First Bunker Hill Oration.
• Whittier’s Snow Bound and Other Early Poems.
• Wister’s The Virginian.
• Woolman’s Journal.
• Wordsworth’s Shorter Poems.

* Cannot be sold in British Dominions.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO

THE
ÆNEID OF VIRGIL

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE

BY
JOHN CONINGTON, M.A.
LATE CORPUS PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
EDGAR S. SHUMWAY, Ph.D.
EDITOR “LATINE”

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1917

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1910,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1910.
Reprinted June, 1914; September, 1917.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.