In the original text, words and phrases supplied by the translator were printed in _italics_. In this e-text they are shown in {braces}. Italics in the notes and commentary are shown conventionally with _lines_, boldface by =marks=. Line numbers from the original Latin poem were printed as headnotes on each page. For this e-text, only the line numbers of each complete “Fable” are given. Line numbers used in footnotes are retained from the original text; these, too, refer to the Latin poem and are independent of line divisions in the translation.…
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