2 vol. in 1, Folio. 144 and 155 leaves, the last leaf with the list of those whose encouragement has made the work possible.
Graesse VI, page 343.
Dibdin II, page 558.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
72.0.
Jefferson occasionally made use of Virgil to illustrate his
Thoughts on English prosody
[see no. 4262]. In his remarks on the length of syllables at the beginning he wrote:
. . . thus, if I meet with the word
praeteritos
in Latin prose, & want to know how the Romans pronounced it, I search for it in some poet, & find it in this line of Virgil
‘O mihi prāetĕrĭtos referat si Iuppiter annos!’ where it is evident that
prae
is long &
te
short in direct opposition to the pronuntiation which we often hear. the length allowed to a syllable is called it’s quantity;
and hence we say that the Greek & Latin languages are to be pronounced according to quantity . . .
Later in the same essay, in a discussion of anapaestic and dactylian verse, Jefferson evidently intended to quote from Virgil,
but omitted the quotation. He wrote:
. . . is this an attempt at Dactylic verse? or shall we consider it still as Anapaestic, wherein either the 2 unaccented syllables
which sh
d begin the verse are omitted; or else the two which end it are, in reciting, transferred to the next verse to compleat the
1
st. Anapæst of that. as in Virgil in the following instance the last syllable of the line belongs to the next, being amalgamated
with that into one.
I am not able to recollect another instance of this kind of verse: and a single example cannot form a class. it is not worth
while therefore to puzzle a foreigner with a critical investigation of it’s character . . .
In the remarks on blank verse, Virgil is mentioned with Homer:
. . . but as we advance in life these things fall off one by one, and I suspect we are left at last with only Homer and Virgil,
perhaps with Homer alone . . .
Pieter Burman, 1668-1741, Dutch scholar, was a pupil of Grævius at Utrecht and of Jacob Gronovius at Leyden. Before his death in 1741 he
had collected the material for an edition of Virgil, which was posthumously published by his nephew, Pieter Burman II, 1714-1778,
in Amsterdam 1746.
The first edition of Virgil’s Opera was published in Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz, circa 1469.
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id.
[i.e. Virgil
] Servii.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 38, Virgil, Servii, fol.
VIRGILIUS MARO,
Publius.
Pvb. Virgilii Maronis Bvcolicorvm, Eclogæ X. Georgicorvm, Libri IIII. Æneidos, Libri XII. Et in ea, Mavri Servii Honorati grammatici commentarii,
ex antiqviss. exemplaribvs longè meliores et avctiores. Ex Bibliotheca Petri Danielis I.C. Accessit Fabij Planciadis Fulgentij liber de Continentia Virgiliana, auctior è Mss. Codd. Item Iunij Philargyrij commentariolus
in Bucolica & Georgica Virgilii. Cvm certissimo et copiosissimo Indice.
Parisiis: apud
Sebastianvm Nivellivm,
M. D. C. Cum Priuilegiis Cæsareæ & Regiæ Maiestatis. [1600.]
PA6801 .A2
Folio. 426 leaves including 58 at the end, with separate signatures and pagination for the Commentary of Philargyrius, with
the Index, errata list and other matter, title printed in red and black, large printer’s woodcut device, the commentary of
Servius interspersed with the text.
Brunet V, 1288.
Graesse VI, 340.
Dibdin II, 547.
Silvestre 639.
Maurus Servius Honoratus, born c. 355 A.D., famous for his commentary on Virgil, first published in 1479.
Pierre Daniel, 1530-1603, classical scholar of Orléans, France, in editing this work, produced the first edition of the fuller form of
the commentary of Servius, hitherto known only in manuscript, and the first edition of the expositions of Junius Philargyrius,
Latin grammarian.
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