Notes June 15 2002
editAbridged of Williams 1968
Williams (1970), pp. 44–45 "girl has stolen", flagitatio. "superbly imaginative poem", reader is left to realize from th epoet's intensity why the girl had his writing tablets anyway -- he had made an amorous propsal to her which she presumably rrejected.
References
- Williams, Gordon (1970). "Imagination and Interpretation". The Nature of Roman Poetry. Oxford Paperback University Series. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 39–54. ISBN 0-19-888049-9.