Note 62 — Chapter VII · POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE
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Discussed above in Chapter IV. II. Cruttwell says of the Heroides: “They are erotic suasoriæ, based on the declamations of the schools.” History of Roman Literature, 306; and Heinze, “die Gattung der poetischen declamatio inaugurierte.” Virgils epische Technik, 434. Cf. Sellar, 331, 356; Carl Brück, De Ovidio scholasticarum declamationum imitatore, Munich, 1909.