Form
The form and style of the text are much indebted to classical authors. Vergil and his Aeneid are explicitly cited in the prefatory letter and in Bk I, Ch. 4, while influences from Sallust, Lucan, Ovid, Horace, Juvenal and Lucretius have also been detected.
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