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The text of the AEneid here presented is based upon a careful collation
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preparation of the Notes, the endeavor has been made to meet the actual
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grammars most in use, and explanations are furnished of passages
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points of history, geography, mythology, and antiquities, as require
elucidation. A metrical index has been added, in which the chief
difficulties of scanning are solved. One thing is presumed
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CICERO AND HORACE will be issued about Dec. 1868.
SALLUST AND LIVY, during the following year.
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