Explanation and justification of the conventions and methods adopted in the Harvard Edition of the Servian commentaries on Vergil, as they are being applied in the author's in-progress volume covering commentary on Aeneid 9-12.

This paper was part of a panel sponsored by the Committee on Publications of the American Philological Association (later renamed Society for Classical Studies) at the Annual Meeting, January 5, 2004, in San Francisco. 

Of the other papers in the panel, that of Cynthia Damon and the response to all papers by Robert Kaster have been added here as supplemental files in January 2018, while the paper of James Zetzel is to be made available at his academia.edu site.