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PREFATORY NOTE..

In the following pages I have expressed some views.
which are, so far as I know, new, upon the chronology
of Vergil's poems, and on the leading ideas of the
Aeneid. For a detailed substantiation of these

I must refer to two pamphlets published at the
Clarendon Press, Oxford, entitled respectively Ancient
Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poetry of Vergil

in connection with his Life and Times, and Suggestions
Introductory to a Study of the Aeneid. I hope at some
future time to publish similar papers on the develop-
ment of the story of Aeneas' wanderings, and on
early criticisms of Vergil, in support of what I
have said in Chapters IV. and VI. of the present
essay.

OXFORD, August, 1879.

H. N.