[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.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero, by W. Warde Fowler