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The article shows how the relevant passages of Ovid and Persius make use of a widespread pattern, deriving from folk-tale, in which the young hero’s encounter with significant female figures between whom he must choose determines his future life. Ovid, with characteristic humour, subverts this pattern and evades the choice.
