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• Latin epic poetry

• Pharsalia (The Civil War), by Lucan
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• Virgil's Aeneid: The First Six Books and the Completion of the Story by Selections and Summaries; and Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Sections Required for Entrance to College in the Years 1923-1925 (texts in Latin, commentary in English; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1923), ed. by J. B. Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge, and Thornton Jenkins, contrib. by Virgil and Ovid
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, Told From Virgil in Simple Language (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Virgil (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stories From Virgil (London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1879), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Virgil, illust. by Bartolomeo Pinelli (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Antonia Jane Reobone Syson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google
• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)
• Virgile et les Origines d'Ostie (in French; Paris: E. de Boccard, 1919), by Jérôme Carcopino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google)

• The Aeneid, by Virgil, trans. by John Dryden
  • HTML with commentary at Perseus
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • Gutenberg text
• The Aeneid, by Virgil, trans. by Theodore C. Williams (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aneis (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed by J. Tonson, 1709), by Virgil, trans. by John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Eneida de Vergilio, Lida Hoje (Portuguese translation of the Aeneid; Lisbon: Liv. Ferreira, 1908), by Virgil, trans. by Coelho de Carvalho
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• La Eneida en la República Argentina (Spanish translation of books 1-6 of the Aeneid; Buenos Aires: F. Lajouane, Editor, 1888), by Virgil, trans. by Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield and Juan Cruz Varela (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Carmina Latina Epigraphica (2 volumes in 1, in Latin; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1895-1897), ed. by Franz Buecheler
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Post Editam Collectionem Buechelerianam in Lucem Prolata (in Latin; 1912), ed. by Einar Engström (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Complete Works of John Gower (4 volumes, in French, English, and Latin; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1899-1902), by John Gower, ed. by G. C. Macaulay
  • Volume 1 (French works): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Confessio Amantis, Prologue - Lib. V 1970): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Confession Amantis, Lib. V 1971 - Liv. VIII; and In Praise of Peace): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Latin works): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid: Clm 4610, The Earliest Documented Commentary on the Metamorphoses (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Robin Wahlsten Böckerman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google)

• Étude sur la Poésie Funéraire Romaine d'Après les Inscriptions (in French; Paris: Hachette, 1922), by Édouard Galletier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal, by Harold Edgeworth Butler (Gutenberg text)
• Zur Sprache der Lateinischen Erotik (in German; Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1912), by Richard Reitzenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cicero und die Altrömischen Dichter: eine Literarhistorische Untersuchung (in German; Würzburg: F. Staudenraus, 1911), by Wilhelm Zillinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993), by Michael Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ovids Schule der "Elegischen" Liebe: Erotodidaxe und Psychagogie in der Ars Amatoria (in German; Frankfurt am Main et al: P. Lang, c1998), by Jula Wildberger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Christine G. Perkell (HTML at UC Press)
• Commentarius in M. Manilii Astronomica (in Latin; 1921), by Jacobus van Wageningen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google)

• Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Genevieve Liveley and Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)
• Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Jeri Blair Debrohun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Politics of Desire: Propertius IV (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Micaela Wakil Janan (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by W. R. Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Catullus in Verona: A Reading of the Elegiac Libellus, Poems 65-116 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2003), by Marilyn B. Skinner (PDF at Ohio State)

• Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Ronnie Ancona (page images at HathiTrust)

• Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova Across Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Marjorie Curry Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Wandering Scholars (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927), by Helen Waddell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by W. R. Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Ronnie Ancona (page images at HathiTrust)

• Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Genevieve Liveley and Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)

• Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Ronnie Ancona (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google)

• Priapeia (in Latin and English), trans. by Richard Francis Burton and Leonard C. Smithers (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Hymns of Prudentius, by Prudentius, trans. by R. Martin Pope (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Ars Amatoria: or, The Art of Love (prose translation; 1885), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (Gutenberg text)
• The Georgics (in English and Latin), by Virgil, trans. by J. W. MacKail (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Georgics, by Virgil, trans. by James Rhoades (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Of the Nature of Things, by Titus Lucretius Carus, trans. by William Ellery Leonard (Gutenberg text)
• On the Nature of Things, by Titus Lucretius Carus, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Remedia Amoris: or, The Remedy of Love (English prose translation with notes; 1885), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (Gutenberg text)
• Translations From Lucretius (London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., c1920), by Titus Lucretius Carus, trans. by R. C. Trevelyan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieuticon of Ovid: Literally Translated Into English Prose, With Copious Notes (London: H. G. Bohn, 1851), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieuticon of Ovid: Literally Translated Into English Prose, With Copious Notes (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1885), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aneis (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed by J. Tonson, 1709), by Virgil, trans. by John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)

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