Fagel's has done a fine translation. However, Virgil's Aeneid should not be read if the reader is unfamiliar with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, since the bard is out to emulate the Chian nightingale. As Joseph Brodsky brilliantly put it: Homer is the only true reader Virgil can have. A funny assertion, since Homer is 800 years dead by the time Publius put stylus to parchment, but one gets what he means. The only exception to the above warning might be is if your Latin is up to snuff. Virgil writes a brilliant hexameter and the act of translating him into sensible English is a pleasant challenge. A Latinist can see Virgil's brilliance in every turn of phrase.