William Stebbing renders into English rhyming verse the passages of Virgil and Lucretius he loved best: Orpheus and Eurydice from the Georgics, the praise of Italy and its happy husbandmen, the old Tarentine’s garden, the golden age, Aeneas in the underworld, and Lucretius on nature and the fear of death.
A handy sampler of the two great Roman poets for readers without Latin. Download the free EPUB.