Selections from Virgil Aeneid X: An Edition for Intermediate Students (Bloomsbury Classical Languages)

137 Pages·2019·1.107 MB·

by  Christopher Tanfield (editor)

Selections from Virgil A eneid X
i
Th e following titles are available from Bloomsbury
Selections from Apuleius Metamorphoses V : An Edition for Intermediate
Students , with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary
by Stuart R. Th omson
Selections from Cicero Philippic II: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by Christopher Tanfi eld
Selections from Cicero Pro Milone: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction by Lynn Fotheringham and commentary notes and
vocabulary by Robert West
Selections from Horace O des: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by John Godwin
Selections from Horace Satires: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by John Godwin
Selections from Ovid A mores II: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by Alfred Artley
Selections from Ovid H eroides : An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by John Godwin
Selections from Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: An Edition for Intermediate
Students , with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary
by Anita Nikkanen
Selections from Tacitus A nnals I: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction by Roland Mayer and commentary notes and vocabulary
by Katharine Radice
Selections from Tacitus H istories I: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction by Ellen O’Gorman and commentary notes and vocabulary
by Benedict Gravell
Selections from Virgil A eneid VIII: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by Keith Maclennan
Selections from Virgil A eneid X: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by Christopher Tanfi eld
Selections from Virgil A eneid XI: An Edition for Intermediate Students ,
with introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary by Ashley Carter
Supplementary resources for these volumes can be found at
www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-classical-languages
Please type the URL into your web browser and follow the instructions to
access the Companion Website. If you experience any problems, please
contact Bloomsbury at [email protected]
ii
Selections from Virgil A eneid X:
An Edition for Intermediate
Students
lines 215–50, 260–307,
362–98, 426–542
With introduction, commentary notes and
vocabulary by Christopher Tanfi eld
iii
BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA
50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK
BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are
trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
First published in Great Britain 2016 as V irgil Aeneid X: A Selection
This edition fi rst published in the United States of America 2019
Copyright © Christopher Tanfi eld, 2016, 2019
Cover image © DEA / C. SAPPA / Getty
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted
in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,
recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior
permission in writing from the publishers.
Bloomsbury Publishing Inc does not have any control over, or responsibility for,
any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given
in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher
regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased
to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes.
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN: PB: 978-1-5013-4986-7
ePDF: 978-1-5013-4988-1
eBook: 978-1-5013-4987-4
Series: Bloomsbury Classical Languages
Typeset by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk
To fi nd out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com
and sign up for our newsletters.
iv
Contents
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Text 41
Commentary Notes 49
Vocabulary 91
v
vi
Preface
Th is book, and the notes which accompany the text on the internet (at
w ww.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-classical-languages) are intended
to assist students of Latin who have mastered the language at
beginner’s level: the notes at the end of the book help readers to
understand how the sentences construe, while the vocabulary glosses
every word in the text. Th e online commentary aims to highlight the
literary qualities of the verse without presuming to be authoritative or
exhaustive: the reader is heartily encouraged to form his or her own
views. Th e Introduction includes much background information
which, it is hoped, will make useful reference as well as an orientation
for those coming to the A eneid for the fi rst time.
My profound thanks are due to Keith Maclennan, who has provided
sections for the Introduction on historical background, style and
literary sources as well as the synopsis. His unstinting comments have
also shaped the rest of this book. I am also deeply grateful to Alice
Wright and her colleagues at Bloomsbury for their indispensable
guidance and support. Anyone who opens S. J. Harrison’s commentary
on Book X will immediately realise my huge indebtedness to it, though
my emphasis is more on artistic appreciation of the Latin than on its
literary models. All in all, I count myself very lucky to have had such
mentors, witting or unwitting, and apologise to them and to the
readers of this book for any remaining errors, which are mine alone.
Christopher Tanfi eld
London
August 2015
vii
viii
Introduction
Th e Aeneid and Roman History
Arma virumque cano. Few fi rst words can be as well- known as these.
Th e story they begin is a foundation- myth for the Roman Empire.
Aeneas, hero of Troy, commanded by the gods to seek a new home in
the west, escapes from his fallen city. With his father, his son and the
gods of Troy he embarks on a journey which takes him past Greece,
Sicily and Italy to Africa. Th ere he loves, is loved by, and at Jupiter’s
command abandons the Carthaginian queen Dido. Reaching at last
the country of Latium, he is forced to fi ght a bloody war. His enemies,
inspired as ever by the goddess Juno, are resolved to resist the destiny
determining that the Trojans, united with the Latin people, shall
establish a settlement which will be the forerunner of the city of Rome.
Aeneas himself, in overcoming the many challenges to his courage, his
sense of duty and his love for his people, prefi gures his descendant the
Emperor Augustus, in whose honour the poem was composed.
Rome was a city with a long history. Originally ruled by kings and
dominated for a time by a dynasty from Etruria, the Romans were
proud of the story that in 509* they had simultaneously brought an
end both to kingship and to Etruscan rule. For the next 450 years, the
period of the Republic, they were ruled by magistrates elected by the
people as a whole and by the aristocratic assembly of the senate. From
the city’s beginnings as one of the communities of Latium (the Latin-
speaking area whose boundaries were the sea, the Tiber and the hills),
Rome came by 338 to control that region. Aft er a series of wars with
other Italian peoples, with a Greek invader from the south and with
*All dates are bce , unless otherwise designated.
1