Resumen de In the name of Tibullus: [Tib.] 3, 19 and Horace
Elegy 3, 19 of the Corpus Tibullianum depicts the passionate and typically elegiac love for an unnamed woman by a poet who identifies himself with Tibullus (in v. 13). For this reason, several scholars have accepted, even recently, that the elegy is his work. However, several elements contradict this hypothesis, such as the fact that the authentic Tibullus only names himself in imagined inscriptions. It is more likely that [Tib.] 3, 19 is a pseudepigraphic impersonation of Tibullus: it appears to be constructed from the references to him found in Hor. epist. 1, 4 (his retreat into the siluae salubres) and carm. 1, 33 (his painful love for a bold and unfaithful woman). The author of [Tib.] 3, 19 thus creates an elegy that anticipates what Horace says in his texts addressed to Tibullus and assumes his authorial mask in an allusive literary game.
