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In editing this book I have kept in mind readers and students who, whatever their age or attainments, have enough knowledge of Latin to approach Virgil and wish to be enabled to study, understand, and enjoy his greatest work without constant recourse to books of reference. The poet, writing for Romans of his own time, assumed a certain background of knowledge and associations familiar to his contemporary readers: it is the function of a commentator to supply this background as far as he can for those who read the poem to-day. -- Preface.
