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Aeneid: Conclusion

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Dryden, John; Virgil

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Translation: Dryden, John

Conclusion

I am also bound to tell your Lordship, in my own defense, that, from the beginning of the First Georgic to the end of the last Aeneid, I found the difficulty of translation growing on me in every succeeding book: for Virgil, above all poets, had a stock, which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. I, who inherit but a small portion of his genius, and write in a language so much inferior to the Latin, have found it very painful to vary phrases, when the same sense returns upon me. Even he ...

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