Word: aeneid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CANDIDATES for second-year honors in classics will substitute Ovid's Fasti for Lucan's Pharsalia. The list as corrected stands : Cicero, De Officiis ; Caesar, Civil War ; Virgil, Georgics and AEneid, - Books VII. - XII., inclusive; Ovid, Fasti...
...next Monday evening Dr. William Everett will read the Fourth Book of the aeneid, at Harvard Hall, beginning at half past seven...
...evening readings in Harvard Hall have begun, and the programme for the week is as follows : Monday, AEneid, by Professor William Everett; Tuesday, Dante, by Professor Norton; Wednesday, Odyssey, by Professor Palmer; Thursday, Moliere, by Professor Bocher...
...evening readings, so gratifying to those who attended them last year, have begun again, and, so far, have been well attended. Mr. Everett reads the AEneid on Monday evenings, Mr. Norton the Divine Comedy on Tuesdays, Mr. Palmer the Odyssey on Wednesdays, and Mr. Bocher parts of Moliere on Fridays. The programme speaks for itself, embodying as it does the great works of Rome, Italy, Greece, and, last of all, France. The readings are one hour long, and consist of translations, with what few introductory and explicative remarks may be necessary for a full understanding of the subject, and offer...
Here, then, in five lines out of eight, is a series of radical blunders in quantity and formation, every one of which requires no further reading than the first book of the Aeneid to set right. After that, considerations of the general style, transference of thought, building up of sentences, are superfluous. There is so much fatally bad that it is not worth asking if there is anything good...