Titulis oppida capta legam: Storia di un 'τόπος elegiaco' da Gallo ad Ovidio.

The poet's participation in the triumph and the reading of the tituli, a theme present in vv. 2-5 of the Gallus papyrus from Qaṣr Ibrîm, is polemically transformed by Prop. 3,4, where it is employed to express the indifference of the poet to war and laudatory poetry, and his elegiac choice of life is reaffirmed. Ovid in ars 1,177-228 alters it further, so that the triumph becomes an occasion for amorous encounters, but in the elegies from exile he presents the τόπος in a different sense, to please the emperor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]