Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 1922, Vol. 53 In the light of nineteenth-century criticism all of these poems were pronounced non-virgilian, and Gudeman voices the general verdict of the age when he says that their spuri ousness is established by incontrovertible proofs (cited by Rand). With the twentieth century the pendulum has swung in the other direction. In 1901 Skutsch reopened a discussion of the problem, when in his Aus Vergils Friihzeit he argued that the ciris belonged to Virgil's own age. Skutsch however did not claim for the poem Virgilian authorship. He was convinced that the Ciris was the work of Virgil's friend, Cornelius Gallus, from whom by way of compliment the greater poet later borrowed many verses. Even as late as 1911 Mackail could say of the Ciris together with the Dime and Lydia: No one in modern times has seriously argued that they are by Virgil himself (lectures on Poetry, p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.