In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described

Law and Love in Ovid challenges the view that legal language in poetry is a sign of frivolity and argues that it signals a radical return to the roots of law's

The political allegiances of major Roman poets have been notoriously difficult to pin down, in part because they often shift the onus of political interpretatio

Parallel latin & English texts.