Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2009
1 At 246–7, the particular Homeric formula imitated is identified.
2 The definition offered is largely negative; the positive part, though quite long, seems to mean no more than ‘Virgil’. The idea also occurs in his Virgil's Iliad (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 155–156Google Scholar, where it attracts some comment from H. (CR 36 [1986], 38).
3 As indicated above, the definition of the term offered on p. 6 is utterly impenetrable.
4 See Servius on Virg. Aen. 2.565 (quoted by Austin).