26. Q. Next to the “Iliad” of Homer, and hardly second to that, what is the most famous of poems? A. The “Æneid” of Virgil.
27. Q. When and where was Virgil born? A. In 70 B. C., at Andes, near Mantau, northern Italy.
28. Q. What is the first of the three classes of poems of which Virgil’s works consist? A. Bucolics or Eclogues—pastoral poems.
29. Q. What is the most celebrated of these minor poems? A. Pollio, supposed to have been the poet’s friend in need.
30. Q. What famous imitation of the Pollio did Pope write in English? A. “Messiah,” a sacred Eclogue.
31. Q. What is the second class of Virgil’s poems? A. Georgics, or poems on farming.
32. Q. Whom does our author consider in many important respects the best of all of Virgil’s English metrical translators? A. The late Professor John Conington, of Oxford, England.
33. Q. Name two other English translators of the “Æneid”? A. John Dryden and William Morris.
34. Q. Name two American translators of the “Æneid”? A. C. P. Cranch and John D. Long.
35. Q. Of what set deliberate purpose is the “Æneid”? A. A Roman national epic in the strictest sense.