PREFACE

THIS edition of the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, like that of the Fourth which has already appeared in the Series, is intended mainly for those who have little knowledge of Virgil. My chief aim has been to explain anything in the text that can fairly give difficulty and to make clear what may be called the geography of the story. The Oxford text has been followed throughout except in line 811, where I have ventured to alter the position of a comma.

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My greatest obligation is to the commentary of Prof. Conington. In a few of the notes I am indebted to Prof. Lindsay's The Latin Language, but I have not thought it necessary in an edition of this kind to make separate acknowledgements. part of the Introduction that relates to the Golden Bough is gathered from Sir James Frazer's volumes bearing that name. I must again thank Mr. M. T. Tatham for reading and criticizing the Notes and Introductions.

OXFORD, 1918.

C. E. FREEMAN.