“…For stress on the amatory side of the poem, see e.g. Comfort 1929, Lackenbacher 1935and Østerud 1978. For stress on the literary aspect, see Townend 1980, Gwyn Morgan 1980, Skelenár 1996and especially Buchheit 1959, who views the whole piece as a doctrinally-based attack on Volusius' poetics.…”