Arte allusiva in Tibullo, 2. 2. Un esercizio di lettura

Abstract

This article points out the previously unnoticed intertextual link between Tibull. 2. 2 and Catull. 11, and argues that Tibullus alludes to Catullus’ poem on his divorce from Lesbia in order to make his own poem, which culminates in a eulogy of marriage and family life, more ‘elegiac’. A few textual and exegetical notes on Tibull. 2. 2 are also provided.