[!--Line Note 26--] [Line 26: Schools—Different systems of doctrine or philosophy as taught by particular teachers.]
[!--Line Note 34--] [Line 34: Maevius—An insignificant poet of the Augustan age, ridiculed by Virgil in his third Eclogue and by Horace in his tenth Epode.]
[!--Line Note 80--] [Lines 80, 81: There is here a slight inaccuracy or inconsistency, since "wit" has a different meaning in the two lines: in 80, it means fancy, in 81, judgment.]
[!--Line Note 86--] [Line 86: The winged courser.—Pegasus, a winged horse which sprang from the blood of Medusa when Perseus cut off her head. As soon as born he left the earth and flew up to heaven, or, according to Ovid, took up his abode on Mount Helicon, and was always associated with the Muses.]
[!--Line Note 94--] [Line 94: Parnassus.—A mountain of Phocis, which received its name from Parnassus, the son of Neptune, and was sacred to the Muses, Apollo and Bacchus.]
[!--Line Note 97--] [Line 97: Equal steps.—Steps equal to the undertaking.]
[!--Line Note 129--] [Line 129: The Mantuan Muse—Virgil called Maro in the next line (his full name being, Virgilius Publius Maro) born near Mantua, 70 B.C.]
[!--Line Note 130-136--] [ [!--Line Note 130-136--] [Lines 130-136: It is said that Virgil first intended to write a poem on the Alban and Roman affairs which he found beyond his powers, and then he imitated Homer:
Cum canerem reges et proelia Cynthius aurem
Vellit—Virg. Ecl. VI]
[!--Line Note 138--] [Line 138: The Stagirite—Aristotle, born at the Greek town of Stageira on the Strymonic Gulf (Gulf of Contessa, in Turkey) 384 B.C., whose treatises on Rhetoric and the Art of Poetry were the earliest development of a Philosophy of Criticism and still continue to be studied.