"Talem enim monstrare Aenean debuit, ut dignus Caesari, in cuius honorem haec scribebantur, parens et auctor generis praeberetur."
— Aeneid

January 1, 1970

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Tiberius Claudius Donatus, Interpretationes Vergilianae, Prooem. Aen. i., as quoted by A. J. Boyle in Studies in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid of Virgil (2018), p. 7, and as translated in Antichthon, Vol. I (1967), p. 29