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The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil

Chapter 52: Transcriber’s Note
By W. Y. Sellar
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A literary-historical examination of Virgil and the Augustan poetic milieu, surveying cultural and political forces—imperial enthusiasm, patronage, wealth, and Alexandrian Greek influences—that shaped themes, style, and reception. The author assesses Virgil’s reputation, the composition and ordering of his shorter pieces, textual and editorial questions, and relationships with contemporaries, combining historical overview with close readings and engagement with prior scholarship and translations. Chapters treat the wider Augustan literary scene, patronage networks, material conditions, and poetic technique, aiming to situate Virgil within his age and to explain how external circumstances and aesthetic choices produced his major poetic effects.

Transcriber’s Note

The author’s footnotes have been moved to the end of the volume.

In Chapter V on page 180, the printer has missed the section heading “II.” It has been restored; the two following section headings were changed from “II.” to “III.” (page 185) and “III.” to “IV.” (page 190), matching the Table of Contents. In the Table of Contents, several page references were corrected: “61” changed to “60”, “294” changed to “295”, “354” changed to “355”, “364” changed to “365” (twice).

The last footnote on page 232 and the first footnote on page 232 have been combined, since the only reason for the separate notes was a page break in the original edition.

The following typographical errors were corrected:

page 2, period added after “Catullum”
page 52, “of” added between “testimony” and “Ovid”
page 65, “inuenissem” changed to “invenissem”
page 91, “nfluence” changed to “influence”
page 132, “neighborhood” changed to “neighbourhood”
page 145, quote added after “âmes.”
page 244, period added after “V”
page 322, “Hyrcansive” changed to “Hyrcanisve”
page 363, “Gründriss” changed to “Grundriss”

Unusual spellings (“develope”, “ascendency”), spelling variations (“Garda” and “Guarda”; “Aeneis” and “Aeneid”, “steadfast” and “stedfastly”, “acknowledgment” and “acknowledgement”, “judgement” and “judgment”, “unmistakable” and “unmistakeable”, “medieval” and “mediaeval”) and variations in hyphenation (“background” and “back-ground”, “birthday” and “birth-day”, “commonplace” and “common-place”, “cornfields” and “corn-fields”, “lawgiver” and “law-giver”, “lifelike” and “life-like”, “lifetime” and “life-time”, “masterpiece” and “master-piece”, “ploughshare” and “plough-share”, “reorganisation” and “re-organisation”) are retained.