ama.xns (amans) and (~~! ~~n~t4~ f~el~n~(1~~~)~i4~6~~1 c!~!sTr~~ )~'~:2t/~:n(~iS) 5.545 achairc (arch&rC) 5:78B tantaen e (tantaene) 5.When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by вЂњexpressivenessвЂќ? This work, based upon a statistical and stylistical enquiry into VirgilвЂ™s Aeneid as well of other hexametric poetry, aims to answer these questions from an appropriate perspective. 1.664 Typhoea (Typhoga)j 2.691 a Sendrvius' (and Servius')j 3.388 Greek letters missing 3.572 passage (superfluous word) 4. 98 BOOK REVIEWS / COMPTES-RENDUS I have noted the following errors : corrections appear in brackets. Occasionally I would have redistributed the available space, and sometimes I missed the crispness of Austin, who tends to hit the heights on his shortest notes. No two Virgiliophiles are in perfect harmony, but I detected few instances where the editor failed to give help. The main emphasis is rightly placed on elucidation of the epic story, for which the illustrative material is wisely chosen and economically distributed the many-faceted style of Virgil is amply treated metrical and grammatical questions receive adequate (sunt ~ dicturi sint 'more than adequate') coverage there are delightfUl quotations from Milton, Spenser, Dryden, Keats, Shelley, Pope, Chaucer, Shakespeare and others. 154 to 517) Greek is understandably a rara avis. 1 to 153, and I have not proofread the whole of it, but note that from 6.768 te is omitted. One slip Klinger xxxv) should be Klingner. While giving due credit to the moderns he not ashamed to remind us of Sainte- Beuve, Sellar and Glover. inter alia his Thebaid 10, Brill 1972), Differences of Text (in over ninety plac~ ~a different reading from Mynors, though many of these affect the sense scarcely or not at all) and finally Biblio graphy. It contains the following sections Life and Works of Virgil, Virgil and Augustus, The Legend of Aeneas, Sources of the Aeneid, Synopsis of the Aeneid, Structure and Themes (in my view the most valuable section), Virgil's ter (a tri fie skimpy, but ably reinforced by the textual notes), The Manuscripts of the Aeneid and the Ancient Conunentators (Williams is a very competent palaeographer cf. I wish the Introduction of 27 pages were a little longer, while realizing the restrictions of the Macmillan format. It must give the author considerable satisfacti on that in this year he has been elected President of the (British) Virgil Society. If, in the years ahead which so threaten the ideals of exact scholarship, Williams' literary longevity qualifies him for the cognomen of Pagina alter, Latin studies are in better shape than the Jeremiahs suggest. The latter ' s 'red Macmillan' Aeneid 1 - 6, now over seventy years old, was possibly the best-known edition of any Latin poet in British classrooms of the twentieth century. John's College, Cambridge, Terrot Glover and Thomas Page. Williams would, I feel sure, be disinclined to quarrel with me if I described his Aeneid 1 - 6 as a double act of piety to two outstanding teachers and scholars from St. Williams has already completed his commentary on the matching voltune, Aeneid 7 - 12, and it will be instructive to see how he handles that half of the poem with which many Latinists, including even sorne notable Virgilian scholars, are less than adequately acquainted. Presumably Fletcher's 1941edition of Aeneid 6 is considered too slim for the series, besides being out of date in many important respects. Williams produced similar commentaries on Aeneid 5 and Aeneid 3 in 19 respectively: Austin's Aeneid 2 appeared in ~d his Aeneid 1 (too lat~ for Williams to consult) in 1971 the latest fruit of the viridis senectus of Roland Austin, now in retirement in the English Cotswolds, is, ni faIlor, to be - need I elaborate? - Aeneid 6. Austin first published his sensitive Oxford edition of Aeneid 4: Mr. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Д«OOK REVIEWS / COMPTES - RENDUS THE AENEID OF VIRGIL : BOOKS 1 - 6 by R.

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