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The Aeneid of Virgil · Virgil — chapter 20 of 20 · ~121 words · public domain

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

The following words appear with and without a hyphen. Spelling has been left as in the original.

blood-stained bloodstained hill-tops hilltops horse-hair horsehair life-blood lifeblood new-born newborn spear-shaft spearshaft water-ways waterways

The following words are spelled in multiple ways. Spelling has been left as in the original.

aery aëry horned hornèd Nereids Nereïd Pergama Pergamea

The following corrections have made to the text:

page 173--'[quotation mark missing in original]Nymphs, Laurentine Nymphs

page 202--in name fail to be Creüsa[original has Crëusa]

page 207--Rumour on fluttering[original has flutttering] wings

page 285--the Rhoetean[original has Rhoeteian] captain drives his army

The first occurrence of Phoebus was rendered with an oe ligature in the original.

Ellipses match the original.

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