This is the John Dreyden translation of The Aeneid, which he translated into heroic couplets to heighten the effect of this Roman hero's tale. According to George R. Noyes of Cambridge, "Despite many revolutions of public taste, Dryden's Virgil still remains practically without a rival as the standard translation of the greatest Roman poet; the only one that, like two or three versions of Homer, has become an English classic."Public Domain