ABSTRACT
In the course of the relatively short time that has elapsed from the release of the author's Vergiliana three years ago several of his interpretations and proposals have attracted comments and sometimes objections. The results of this process will have particular relevance for those who already have the author's Vergiliana on their shelves. For those remembering Theocritus Vergil does not pay homage to the Muses even we reckon with the vocative Musae. He has completely changed the alleged model: instead of presenting himself as a favourite of the Muses, we see a poet whose poems have the patronage of Jupiter. Some critics take musae as a vocative plural addressed to the Muses, an interpretation already in vogue in antiquity (see Servius) and of late recommended by Cucchiarelli.
