1Earl of Macclesfield: Speech Awarding the Copley Medal, 30 November 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...Trojan or Rutulian, I shall regard him without discrimination.” Virgil, Aeneid,
Virgil, Aeneid,
3To James Madison from William Bradford, 12 August 1773 (Madison Papers)
In a footnote the Latin (Virgil Aeneid vi. 126) is translated to read:
4To James Madison from William Bradford, 4 March 1774 (Madison Papers)
Virgil Aeneid vi. 141–48, 203–11.
5To Benjamin Franklin from Rudolph Erich Raspe, 14 August 1777 (Franklin Papers)
, “fortune aids the daring”: Virgil, Aeneid,
6To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 14 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
...are fallen so low that fortune cannot turn again.” Virgil, Aeneid,
7To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Mather, 24 June 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Virgil, Aeneid,
8To John Adams from James Lovell, 13 June 1779 (Adams Papers)
“I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts” (Virgil, Aeneid, II, 49). Lovell’s
9To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 22 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
A garbled version of Virgil, Aeneid,
10C. W. F. Dumas to John Adams: A Translation, 3 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
The Latin is Dumas’ adaptation of Virgil, aeneid 4. 180-187, and reads: on swift wings...
11To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 15 April 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...was the struggle to found the race of Rome): Virgil, Aeneid,
12To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 26 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
“I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts” (Virgil Aeneid ii. 49).
13From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 1 January 1783 (Adams Papers)
Virgil, Aeneid, Book II, line 521: “Non tali auxilio,...
14To John Adams from C. W. F. Dumas, 18 April 1783 (Adams Papers)
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts (Virgil, Aeneid, Book II, line 49).
15John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 May 1783 (Adams Papers)
...Carthage and the Trojan leader Aeneas is the subject of Virgil, Aeneid, book IV, which
16From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 5 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
...of these things will prove a source of future pleasure (Virgil, Aeneid, Book I, line 203).
17From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 8 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
I fear the Greeks even when they bear gifts (Virgil, Aeneid, Book II, line 49).
18To John Adams from C. W. F. Dumas, 22 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
It acquires strength by going (Virgil, Aeneid, Book IV, line 175).
19From John Jay to John Witherspoon, 6 April 1784 (Jay Papers)
...command me, O Queen, to revive unspeakable grief.” Virgil, Aeneid 2: 3.
20From John Adams to William Tudor, 9 May 1789 (Adams Papers)
Virgil, Aeneid, Book 1, line 118: Scattered swimmers are seen...
21From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 18 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
...“It will some day be a joy to recall” (Virgil, Aeneid, transl. H. Rushton Fairclough,...
22Thomas Boylston Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 17 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
...her veins; she is eaten by a secret flame (Virgil, Aeneid, Book IV, line 2).
23From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 3 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
: an adaptation of Virgil, Aeneid, 2.6, “quorum pars magna fui.” TJ’...
24Enclosure: François D’Ivernois’s Second Letter on the Genevan Revolution, 23 September [1794] (Jefferson Papers)
...the task, the hard thing,” an abbreviated rendering of Virgil, Aeneid, 4.126–9 (H. Rushton...
25Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
...trapping them in a cave on the island of Aeolia (Virgil, Aeneid,
26Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 20 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
...An allusion to Venus’ revelation to Aeneas as portrayed in Virgil, Aeneid, Book I, lines 402–...
27From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 28 August 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
...“the breezes warning the sailors of the coming gale,” Virgil, Aeneid,
28Jeremy Belknap to Abigail Adams, 30 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
Virgil, Aeneid, Book III, lines 548–587.
29Francis Dana to Abigail Adams, 23 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
Dana was quoting from Virgil, Aeneid,
30John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 12 March 1802 (Adams Papers)
was then reading (Virgil, Aeneid, transl. H. Rushton Fairclough and G. P....