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THE

GEORGICS

OF

VIRGIL

TRANSLATED:

BY

WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ESQ.

F.R.S. AND A.S.S.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY.

TO THE

REV. WILLIAM HOWLEY, A.M.

FELLOW OF ST. MARY'S COLlege, winton.

DEAR SIR,

WHILE I gratify my own feelings, by thus publicly dedicating to you the following version of THE GEORGICS, and add, that it has stood the test of your criticism, I am not without fear, that to those who are acquainted with your taste and attainments in literature, I may seem to have consulted rather my own reputation, than the sentiments of disinterested friendship. You, however, cannot be mistaken in the genuine motives of this address; and, on that account, it is unnecessary for me to repeat the assurance of regard and affection.

my

LONDON, Seymour Place, May 15, 1800.

WILLIAM SOTHEBY.

In other poemes and dities of pleasure, it is of less difficultie to bring a mans own sense to his own rime; than in this kind of translation to enforce his rime to the necessitie of another mans meaningc.

THOMAS TWYNE, 1584-Pref. to Transl. of Virgil's Æneidos.