Crossword-Solution: ENEID 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

There is such a dearth of invention in the -,Eneid, (and when he did invent, it was often so foolishly,) so little good sense, so little variety, and so little power over the passions, that I have frequently said, from contempt for his matter, and from the charm of his harmony, that I believe I should like his poem better, if I was to hear it repeated, and did not understand Latin.

The Friendship of _Eneas_ for _Achates_ in the _Eneid_, is found Fault with much for the same Reasons that some Criticks might carp at this of _Hamlet's_ for _Horatio_, viz.

But you will perhaps accuse me of refining too much; and it is, I own, comparatively of little importance, while we are engaged in reading the _Iliad_, the _Eneid_, the tragedies of _Othello_ and _King Lear_, whether the authors of these poems were good or bad men; whether they lived happily or miserably.

Virgil was commanded by Augustus to read aloud to his sister that book of the Eneid in which he had commemorated the virtues and early death of the young Marcellus.

Fyrst y^e descripciõ of a fained person, as Vyrgyl in the syxt of Eneid, faineth Sibil to be mad, & fayneth the persons in hell.