[Footnote 568:  e.g. de Off. iii. 28; de Nat.  Deor. i. 116.]

[Footnote 569:  Glover, Studies in Virgil, p. 275.]

[Footnote 570:  It is interesting to note that in the religious revival of Augustus Jupiter by no means has a leading place.  See Carter, Religion of Numa, p. 160, where, however, the attitude of Augustus towards the great god is perhaps over-emphasised.  On the relation of Virgil’s Jupiter to Fate, see E. Norden, Virgils epische Technik, p. 286 foll.  Seneca, it is worth noting, never mentions Jupiter as the centre of the Stoic Pantheon.—­Dill, Roman Society from Nero to M. Aurelius, p. 331.]

[Footnote 571:  See an article by the author in Hibbert Journal, July 1907, p. 847.]

[Footnote 572:  Plut. Sulla, 6.]

[Footnote 573:  Valerius Maximus ii. 3.]

[Footnote 574:  de Div. i. 32. 68.]

[Footnote 575:  Plut. Brutus, 36, 37.]

[Footnote 576:  Sall. Cat. 51; Cic. Cat. iv. 4. 7.]

[Footnote 577:  Cic. de Rep. iv. 24.]

[Footnote 578:  Reid, The Academics of Cicero, Introduction, p. 18.]

[Footnote 579:  ad Att. xii. 36.]

[Footnote 580:  ad Att. xii. 37.]

[Footnote 581:  Suetonius, Jul. 88.  See E. Kornemann in Klio, vol. i. p. 95.]

[Footnote 582:  We do not know exactly when this preface was written.  Prefaces are now composed, as a rule, when a work is finished:  but this does not seem to have been the practice in antiquity, and internal evidence is here strongly in favour of an early date.]

[Footnote 583:  Epode 16. 54; cp. 30 foll.]

[Footnote 584:  Sir W.M.  Ramsay, quoted in Virgil’s Messianic Eclogue, p. 54.]

[Footnote 585:  Dr. J.B.  Mayor, in Virgil’s Messianic Eclogue, p. 118 foll.]