Notes • "To unfold the entire age in three papyrus rolls" can be less literally rendered as "To give an account of all recorded history in three volumes", and refers to Cornelius Nepos'
Chronica ("Annals"), an exhaustive three-volume history of the
Greco-Roman world. •
O does not appear in any extant manuscripts, but is supplied by modern editors on the assumption that it was in the original, based on context and metrical concerns. • The "patron maiden" may be either
Minerva or one of the Muses. ==Bibliography==