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Excerpt from The Works of P. Virgilius Maro: With the Original Text Reduced to the Natural Order of Construction; And an Interlinear Translation, as Nearly Literal as the Idiomatic Difference of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow; Adapted to the System of Classical Instruction In the winter of 1833, Mr. Joseph N. Lewis, bookselle1 )f Baltimore, applied to Mr. Osborn to revise the three woke of the {eneid he had already published, and to com blew a translation of the entire poem. Mr. Osborn, who 11 at the head of a large seminary in this city, could not, fronr want of time, accomplish the task himself, and engageo M1 John L. Cary to execute it for him. After having com oleted the fourth book, Mr. Gary was obliged, from infirm health, to relinquish the undertaking - when Mr. Osborn applied to the writer of this prefatory note, to complete the work his friend Cary had left unfinished. He undertook, and has accomplished it, as well as he could, in the time allowed to him. To this he has added the Bucolics and Georgics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.