Virgil:  The Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations


Each of us bears his own Hell.  (Aeneid, VI, l. 743)

Virgil.
Publii Virginii Maronis Opera, or, The Works of Virgil. New York: Pratt, Woodford & Co., 1844.
Call Number: (SPL) PA 6801 .A3 C6 1844
Gift of Loryn Romadka, from the collection of Austin F. Lutter.
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

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Virgil Text

This is a collegiate Latin edition of Virgil's works, first published by J.G. Cooper in the 1820s. It came about from a perceived lack of a comprehensive collegiate edition of Virgil which would "lighten the labor of the teacher, and facilitate the acquisition of a knowledge of the poet." Cooper argued that previous editions gave the student either too much textual illustration, or not enough to adequately understand the subtlety of Virgil's work.


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