The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius Translated

Excerpt from The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius Translated: With Notes and Observations, Critical, Historical, and Explanatory; In Four Volumes, Vols. I-II It is a curious circumstance, to inquire how this has happened. Two Roman writers, of great eminence, have condescended to avail themselves of the talents and the labours of the Alexandrian: yet they have not, in any part of their works, acknowledged the obligation, or paid the smallest tribute of gratitude to his memory. May it not be conjectured, that the poets in question, and their adherents, found an ungenerous interest in the keeping back from view the merits of a rival, whose prominence might tend to overshadow them - May not the Romans, from a general sen timent of pride and triumph in their great epic poet, have been disposed to consign, if possible, to obscurity, the source from whence he had im bibed his very genius and poetical style and character, and had drawn so many of his softest and pure st graces -'l'hc father of epic song rose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.