In a letter written on 8 November 1713 in Utrecht and addressed to Gisbert Cuper, the Dutch classical scholar Pieter Burman the Elder (1668-1741) noted down several textual remarks on the Latin text of the Ciris, a brief mythological pseudo-Vergilian poem included in the Appendix Vergiliana. Burman died while preparing the edition of Vergil's complete work, including the Ciris (which perhaps he planned on correcting along the lines expressed in the letter); this legacy was left to his nephew, Pieter Burman the Younger.