[856] Ovid fasti I 207, III 779-82, IV 693-4.

[857] Ovid metam I 135-6, Manilius I 73-4.

[858] Vitruvius II 1.

[859] I cannot accept Prof. Richmond’s view (Inaugural lecture 1919 p 25) of the Georgics as ‘concerned with every side of husbandry.’

[860] Whether Vergil suffered two expulsions, and what is the chronological order of eclogues I and IX, are questions that do not affect my inquiry.

[861] Pliny epist III 10 § 7.

[862] Aen VII 641-817, IX 603-13.

[863] e.g. Aen VI 613.

[864] Ellis on Catullus XXIII 1.

[865] See page 217.