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.h "THREE: IMPLICATIONS" Having arrived at a better appreciation of the \f7Bellum Ciuile\f6, both on its own merits and as it relates to the remarks which preface it; having, in other words, discovered just \f7what\f6 the poem is, it now remains to ask \f7why\f6 it is. The usual explanations of the poem's purpose within the narrative are often based on the assumption that Eumolpus' verse is at best mediocre. In the course of the previous two chapters, though, it has proved to be more than this. A better understanding of the poem's merits complicates its place in the narrative. Some of the arguments usually adduced to explain the \f7Bellum Ciuile\f6 require only slight moderation in light of the foregoing analysis; others are more seriously problematic and need to be replaced by better theories. The remainder of the present study addresses the implications of a more charitable appreciation of the \f7Bellum Ciuile\f6: for the place of the poem in its surrounding text, for the genre and wider purpose of the \f7Satyricon\f6, and for the characterization of the poet Eumolpus.