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The poem follows a legendary refugee who flees a ruined city and undertakes a prolonged sea voyage shaped by capricious gods. It mixes adventurous episodes—a tragic liaison with a foreign queen, encounters with divine messengers, and a guided descent into the underworld that reveals destiny—with a later return that erupts into warfare as he seeks to secure a future for his people. Arranged in twelve books, the work alternates voyage, prophecy, and battle and examines themes of fate, duty, piety, exile, and the tension between personal desire and public obligation.

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Title: The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2

Author: Virgil

Translator: Gawin Douglas

Release date: September 5, 2015 [eBook #49884]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: Scots

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THE
ÆNEID OF VIRGIL
TRANSLATED INTO SCOTTISH VERSE

BY
GAWIN DOUGLAS
BISHOP OF DUNKELD.

VOLUME I.

PRINTED AT EDINBURGH.
M.DCCC.XXXIX.

PRESENTED TO
THE BANNATYNE CLUB
BY ANDREW RUTHERFURD
AND GEORGE DUNDAS.

THE BANNATYNE CLUB.
M.DCCC.XXXIX.

THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ.
PRESIDENT.

  • THE EARL OF ABERDEEN.
  • THE EARL OF ASHBURNHAM.
  • THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.
  • LORD BELHAVEN AND HAMILTON.
  • ROBERT BELL, ESQ.
  • WILLIAM BELL, ESQ.
  • WILLIAM BLAIR, ESQ.
  • THE REV. PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L.
  • JOHN BORTHWICK, ESQ.
  • BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ.
  • THE MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE.
  • GEORGE BRODIE, ESQ.
  • CHARLES DASHWOOD BRUCE, ESQ.
  • O. TYNDALL BRUCE, ESQ.
  • THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY
  • JAMES CAMPBELL, ESQ.
  • WILLIAM CLERK, ESQ.
  • HON. HENRY COCKBURN, LORD COCKBURN, VICE-PRESIDENT.
  • DAVID CONSTABLE, ESQ.
  • ANDREW COVENTRY, ESQ.
  • JAMES T. GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ. TREASURER.
  • WILLIAM GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.
  • GEORGE CRANSTOUN, ESQ.
  • JAMES DENNISTOUN, ESQ.
  • GEORGE DUNDAS, ESQ.
  • RIGHT HON. W. DUNDAS, LORD CLERK REGISTER.
  • LORD DUNFERMLINE.
  • LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.
  • SIR CHARLES DALRYMPLE FERGUSSON, BART.
  • ROBERT FERGUSON, ESQ.
  • GENERAL SIR RONALD C. FERGUSON.
  • COUNT MERCER DE FLAHAULT.
  • HON. JOHN FULLERTON, LORD FULLERTON.
  • WILLIAM GOTT, ESQ.
  • ROBERT GRAHAM, ESQ.
  • LORD GRAY.
  • RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE.
  • THE EARL OF HADDINGTON.
  • THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON.
  • ED. W.A. DRUMMOND HAY, ESQ.
  • SIR THOMAS BUCHAN HEPBURN, BART.
  • JAMES MAITLAND HOG, ESQ.
  • LORD HOLLAND.
  • JOHN HOPE, ESQ., DEAN OF FACULTY.
  • COSMO INNES, ESQ.
  • DAVID IRVING, LL.D.
  • JAMES IVORY, ESQ., SOLICITOR-GENERAL.
  • SIR HENRY JARDINE.
  • HON. FRANCIS JEFFREY, LORD JEFFREY.
  • JOHN GARDINER KINNEAR, ESQ.
  • THE EARL OF KINNOULL.
  • DAVID LAING, ESQ., SECRETARY.
  • THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.
  • REV. JOHN LEE, D.D.
  • ALEXANDER WELLESLEY LEITH, ESQ.
  • LORD LINDSAY.
  • JAMES LOCH, ESQ.
  • LORD LOVAT.
  • THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.
  • ALEXANDER MACDONALD, ESQ.
  • WILLIAM MACDOWALL, ESQ.
  • HON. J.H. MACKENZIE, LORD MACKENZIE.
  • JAMES MACKENZIE, ESQ.
  • JOHN WHITEFOORD MACKENZIE, ESQ.
  • WILLIAM FORBES MACKENZIE, ESQ.
  • JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ.
  • THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ.
  • VISCOUNT MELVILLE.
  • WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ.
  • THE EARL OF MINTO.
  • HON. SIR J.W. MONCREIFF, BART., LORD MONCREIFF.
  • HON. SIR JOHN A. MURRAY, LORD MURRAY.
  • WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ.
  • MACVEY NAPIER, ESQ.
  • SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE.
  • LORD PANMURE.
  • HENRY PETRIE, ESQ.
  • SIR THOMAS PHILLIPS, BART.
  • EDWARD PIPER, ESQ.
  • ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ.
  • ALEXANDER PRINGLE, ESQ.
  • JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ.
  • THE EARL OF ROSEBERY.
  • RIGHT HON. A. RUTHERFURD, LORD ADVOCATE.
  • THE EARL OF SELKIRK.
  • JAMES SKENE, ESQ.
  • WILLIAM SMYTHE, ESQ.
  • THE EARL SPENCER.
  • JOHN SPOTTISWOODE, ESQ.
  • EDWARD STANLEY, ESQ.
  • MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOSEPH STRATON.
  • THE HON. CHARLES FRANCIS STUART.
  • THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.
  • ALEXANDER THOMSON, ESQ.
  • WALTER C. TREVELYAN, ESQ.
  • DAWSON TURNER, ESQ.
  • ADAM URQUHART, ESQ.
  • RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE WARRENDER, BART.
  • THE VEN. ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.

HEYR BEGYNNYS
THE WARK OF VIRGYLL PRYNCE OF LATYN POETIS
IN HYS TWELF BUKIS OF ENEADOS
COMPILIT AND TRANSLATIT FURTH OF LATYN
IN OUR SCOTTIS LANGAGE
BY ANE RICHT NOBILL AND WIRSCHIPFULL CLERK
MASTER GAWYN DOWGLAS
PROVEST OF SANCT GYLYS KYRK IN EDINBURGH
AND PERSON OF LYNTOUN IN LOUTHIANE
QUHILK EFTYR WAS BISCHOP OF DUNKELD