Aeneid Book III (excerpt)
by Virgil / translated from the Latin by David Ferry • from The Aeneid • The University of Chicago Press
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Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC) wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid.
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The Aeneid"Ferry's is now the best modern version of the Aeneid, both for its loyalty to the original and for its naturalness to itself. . ." (Times Literary Supplement)
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