^{page 597 note 20} For the tradition linking Linus and Silenus see Ross, chapter 2.

^{page 597 note 1} Cic. Fam.5.12.5: ‘Etenim ordo ipse annalium mediocriter nos retinet quasi enumeratione fastorum; at viri saepe excellentis ancipites variique casus habent admirationem exspectationem, laetitiam molestiam, spem timorem; si vero exitu notabili concluduntur, expletur animus iucundissima lectionis voluptate.’

^{page 597 note 2} Aetna247-51:

^{page 598 note 3} For example Propertius 2.12.7-8,2.14.29-30, 3.24.9-17.

^{page 598 note 4} Murgatroyd, P., ‘The Sea of Love’, CQ 45 (1995), 9–25, especially pp. 19-22 for the use of the trope by the elegists of the Augustan period.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

^{page 598 note 5} Murgatroyd, op. cit., p. 19.

^{page 598 note 6} Prop. 1.10.19-20: Cynthia me docuit semper quaecumque petenda quaeque cauenda forent: non nihil egit Amor.

^{page 598 note 7} Lyne, R.O.A.M., The Latin Love Poets (Oxford, 1980), pp. 110–114Google Scholar

^{page 598 note 8} Lyne, op. cit., p. 113

^{page 598 note 9} Thanks are due to Dr S. J. Heyworth and Mr P. G. McC. Brown for their encouragement and suggestions, and to all those present at the class at which these ideas were first put forward for their comments.