1From John Adams to William Tudor, 9 May 1789 (Adams Papers)
Virgil, Aeneid, Book 1, line 118: Scattered swimmers are seen...
2From 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,...
3Thomas 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).
4From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 3 February 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
: an adaptation of Virgil, Aeneid, 2.6, “quorum pars magna fui.” TJ’...
5Enclosure: 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...
6Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
...trapping them in a cave on the island of Aeolia (Virgil, Aeneid,
7Abigail 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–...