Frederick Holland Dewey's interlinear translation of Virgil's "The Aeneid."

This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)".

"Editions and helpful books": p. 26-28.

Recounts the adventures of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who helped found Rome, after the fall of Troy.

Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his ...

Lucan's great poem, Pharsalia, recounts events surrounding the decisive battle fought near Pharsalus in 48 B.C. during the civil war between the forces of Pompey and Julius Caesar.

It consists of 162 neatly hand-written pages, including an epistle to the king, and Cauchi includes parallel English and Latin texts, marginal explanatory notes, a full introduction and commentary that set the work in the context of ...