Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    poetry · 1st century BCE · 2 crossings

    Aeneid

    Aeneis

    Virgil, in Latin

    Rome's founding epic, never lost and never done: every age of English has felt obliged to make its own.

    The chain

    29 BCE–19 BCE Latin original

    written by Virgil in Rome

    1. 1697 Latin English translation attested

      translated by John Dryden in London

      The subscription Virgil that set the commercial template Pope would reuse for Homer. Douglas's complete Scots Eneados of 1513 deserves its asterisk as the first in any Anglic tongue.

    2. 1910 Latin English translation attested

      translated by Theodore C. Williams in Boston

      The Boston verse translation; the text carried in this library.