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A95995 Æneas his descent into Hell as it is inimitably described by the prince of poets in the sixth of his Æneis. / Made English by John Boys of Hode-Court, Esq; together with an ample and learned comment upon the same, wherein all passages criticall, mythological, philosophical and historical, are fully and clearly explained. To which are added some certain pieces relating to the publick, written by the author.; Aeneis. Liber 6. English Virgil.; Boys, John, 1614?-1661. 1660 (1660) Wing V619; Thomason E1054_3; ESTC R200370 157,893 251

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