Explore Virgil with a scholarly voice—this volume pairs the introduction with the Latin text, plus notes to guide study.
This edition of P. Vergili Maronis Opera offers a full Introduction and the Virgil text, with a revised commentary designed for university students and higher-level schools. It collects the life, the textual history, and the hexameter technique in one volume, drawing on earlier editions and contemporary scholarship. The editors, T. L. Papillon and A. E. Haigh, present material that helps readers understand Virgil’s work in its historical context.
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Excerpt from P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Vol. 1: Introduction and Text
Tm: text of this edition (as of the former edition published by the Clarendon Press in 1882) is based Upon that of Ribbeck, with certain modifications, particularly in matters of orthography. It has already been issued in five Parts, with an abridgement of Mr. Papillon's original Introduction pre fixed to each Part but for the present complete edition the Introduction in its fuller form has been retained, after due revision. The Commentary has been revised throughout by both Editors, with the view of making it more generally useful to students of the Universities and in the higher forms of Schools.
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