FIRST SWEDISH TRANSLATION OF VIRGIL'S ECLOGUES

VIRGIL

Ecloger eller Herde-qwäden, öfwersatte på swensk wers efter latinska prosodien, uti lika werse-slag, och lika många werser med originalet.

Stockholm, Horrn, 1740.

4to. In contemporary marbled boards. Wear to extremities, spine with loss of paper. End-papers with annotations and previous owners names. Marginal dampstaining throughout. (16), 85, (3) pp. 


First Swedish translation of Virgil's Eclogues, his first published poems.

"It was translated by Gustaf Palmfelt (1680–1744) in hexameter form which Adlerbeth refers to as a suppressed enslavement “en förtryckande träldom” due to the large amount of consonants in the Swedish language. Palmfelt does not state which text edition he used as the foundation for his translation, but instead provides a lengthy justification and explanation for writing in Swedish hexameter form." (Rålamb, Swedish Contributions to Classical Philology).

Rålamb 216.
Graesse VII, 366.
Kallendorf, P. 330, (1740.3).

Order-nr.: 62702

DKK 3.500,00