Excerpt from The First Six Books of Virgil's Aeneid: With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary In the firm conviction that we have gone too far in the marking of quantities in our latter-day text-books, and that it is time to call a halt, at least in poetry, the quantities have been marked only in the Vocabulary. To try to teach boys to scan by presenting them with marked quantities in the text is about as reasonable as to try to teach them to translate by the use of interlinear translations. The only way to make a hard ...
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Excerpt from The First Six Books of Virgil's Aeneid: With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary In the firm conviction that we have gone too far in the marking of quantities in our latter-day text-books, and that it is time to call a halt, at least in poetry, the quantities have been marked only in the Vocabulary. To try to teach boys to scan by presenting them with marked quantities in the text is about as reasonable as to try to teach them to translate by the use of interlinear translations. The only way to make a hard thing easy is by hard work; and to avoid the water is not the best way to learn how to swim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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