The neoclassical shows influences from the Latin elegiacs and the Spanish classics. The fourteenth book (on forestry) is written in elegiacs (eighty-five couplets). Poem 4 in elegiacs is on the poet's friendship and admiration for Octavius Musa. Poem 7 in elegiacs talks about love and plays with Greek words in Latin poetry. Such epitaphs were frequently in metrical form, usually either hexameter or elegiacs.