"To Dr. Trapp's unrhymed version of the Augustan Epic [...] I am disposed to attribute much more praise than it has been its fortune to obtain. Trapp was a scholar and a critic; and, fully possessing the sense of his author, he has communicated it, at all times, in flowing numbers, and, occasionally, in poetic diction. His notes discover accurate learning; and his prefaces contain much erudite and tasteful criticism. To any reader, unversed in the Roman language and desirous of becoming acquainted with Virgil, I would recommend Trapp as his instructor: for in the volumes of the Oxford professor is to be found a greater mass of Virgilian information than can be obtained from any other single work in our language."
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Charles Symmons, Preface (February 9th, 1816) to the first edition of Symmons's translation of The Æneis of Virgil, in Vol. I of its second edition (1820), p. 54
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Joseph Trapp
1679 – 1747
Joseph Trapp (1679 – 1747) was an English clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer.
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