Authority Cited: AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]
Author name and dates: Christopher Pitt (1699-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; church living; translator; SJ: (with Dryden) two best translations of one author (Virgil); epitaph: “lived innocent”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG note: one Pitt cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists the following item: 554 4. Pitt's Virgil, 2v. &c.]
His course to Latium from the Trojan shore
Author name and dates: Christopher Pitt (1699-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; church living; translator; SJ: (with Dryden) two best translations of one author (Virgil); epitaph: “lived innocent”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG note: one Pitt cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists the following item: 554 4. Pitt's Virgil, 2v. &c.]
- Aeneid; The Æneid of Virgil. Translated by Mr. Pitt. In two volumes. ... ; per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), Virgil, The Aeneid (1740), vol. II, marked by SJ, was in the Hyde Collection, presumably now at Harvard. However, SJ decided to use Dryden's translation for almost all Aeneid quotes. Only one Pitt Aeneid entry, under first, has been noticed, and the quote is from the opening lines of vol. I:
His course to Latium from the Trojan shore