The following note s have been made during a long-continued study of Aeneid vii. , with a constantly growing conviction of the priority of these books in point of composition. They deal with internal evidence and literary correspondences only. Examination of the metre has not produced any very definite results, so when I note d in one of the most recent articles on Vergilian metre z the statement that ‘a comparison and analysis of the separate books of the Aeneid does (...) not give any results worthy of note ’ , it seemed that these note s might appear without further waiting, though their argument is almost entirely subjective. (shrink)