INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

BOOK I THE LANDING NEAR CARTHAGE

BOOK II THE FALL OF TROY

BOOK III THE WANDERINGS OF AENEAS

BOOK IV AENEAS AND DIDO

BOOK V THE FUNERAL GAMES FOR ANCHISES

BOOK VI THE LOWER WORLD

BOOK VII ITALY: THE OUTBREAK OF WAR

BOOK VIII AENEAS AT THE SITE OF ROME

BOOK IX IN THE ABSENCE OF AENEAS

BOOK X ARMS AND THE MAN

BOOK XI THE DESPAIR OF THE LATINS

BOOK XII THE FINAL COMBAT

A P P E N D I X

VIRGIL'S LIFE AND TIMES

CAST OF CHARACTERS

THE
AENEID
OF
VIRGIL

POETRY BY ROLFE HUMPHRIES

 
THE AENEID OF VIRGIL: A VERSE TRANSLATION
THE WIND OF TIME
FORBID THY RAVENS
THE SUMMER LANDSCAPE
OUT OF THE JEWEL
THE POET IN NEW YORK (TRANSLATION FROM LORCA)
AND SPAIN SINGS (WITH M. J. Benardete)
EUROPA, AND OTHER POEMS, AND SONNETS
POEMS, COLLECTED AND NEW
GREEN ARMOR ON GREEN GROUND

THE
AENEID
OF
VIRGIL

A VERSE
TRANSLATION
BY
ROLFE HUMPHRIES


CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, NEW YORK

This translation is dedicated to the memory
of my first and best Latin teacher, my father,
John Henry Humphries.

laus illi debetur et a me gratia maior