SOURCE: "Tibullus and Ovid: The Authorship of the Sulpicia and Cornutus Elegies in the Tibullan Corpus. Part I," American Journal of Philology, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, Whole No. 173, 1923, pp. 1-26.

In the following excerpt, Radford presents evidence that Tibullus's Book 11 and the second elegy of Book IV were actually written by Ovid.

I. Gi; I. introduction. =~ Sintroduction.

In two articles published in the Transactions of the American Philological Association,¹ I have sought to show that the whole Tibullan Appendix—including also the second, third and fifth elegies of Book 1I—as well as the whole Vergilian Appendix, including the great Priapea, are the youthful productions of Ovid, composed by him in the period extending from 27 to 8 B. c. These conclusions are based partly upon a study of the schemata and the metrical development, and partly upon the use of Burman's long neglected Index to Ovid, and they agree entirely...