Dear Simon and all, I thought that was a good introduction to the problem - mind you I'm an Anglo-Saxonist, not a Vergil scholar. It doe bring up something that has been bothering me for the last few months, having read Horsfall's hatchet job on the lives, what does the group believe is fact in the Suetonius/Donatus lives - and I suppose Leofranc is the best informed on this point - is there any possibility that autograph manuscripts of Vergil, or at least drafts copied under his supervision, survived his editors? Helen Conrad-O'Briain
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