The Twelve Books Of The Aeneid Of Vergil With Notes And A Vergilian Dictionary

Author : Vergil Vergil
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ISBN 13 : 9781332903702
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Twelve Books of the Aeneid of Vergil written by Vergil Vergil and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Twelve Books of the Aeneid of Vergil: With Notes and a Vergilian Dictionary Ribbeck, * in common with other recent critics, has repro duced or aimed to reproduce in the orthography of his text the diversity and inconsistency exhibited in the manuscripts. For, as the old English writers, so also the Latin authors and copyists, were often at variance with themselves in the spelling of words. But though such exact representations of the varia ble and unsettled orthography of the language are of much in. Tercet and importance in critical philology, and in what is called the pathology of a language, it is obvious that for the general reader and for school purposes the text should be as uniform and consistent as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.