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THE LITERARY ‘SUCCESSOR’: OVIDIAN METAPOETRY AND METAPHOR*

The notion of the literary ‘successor’ is now such a commonplace that no illustrations are here required, yet its very ubiquity may lie behind a failure to explore such vocabulary fully. Scholars have usually interpreted succedo and successor in these passages as referring to the later elegists ‘coming after’ or ‘succeeding’ in a simple chronological sense (OLD 6);2 one of Ovid’s models for Tr. 2’s account of literary