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(More customer reviews)I bought the Scribner Library edition of Humphries' translation of the AENEID for $1.95 around 1970. On the back cover, W.H. Auden and Dudley Fitts praise it highly. It's too bad that this beautiful and engaging translation does not sit on the bookstore shelves today at a reasonable price alongside of those of Fitzgerald and Mandelbaum. Here is Humphries' rendition of the last few lines of Book 12, where Aeneas "exacts his vengeance": "... the blade went deep/And Turnus' limbs were cold in death; the spirit/Went with a moan indignant to the shadows." A friend, upon reading these lines, suggested that Vergil could not possibly have done better in the original. Get a copy of this translation, if you can find it. The poetry has a moving rhythm, and it will move you.
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