11 Al-
though Voss never possessed any great vogue in Germany at
large as a critic, his among classical philologians
was immense, and it is chiefly to his violent attack upon the
Lygdamus elegies that we must ascribe the hopeless con-
fusion that has since arisen among scholars and that has
made the question of the authorship of these poems an in-
soluble ' mystery.
though Voss never possessed any great vogue in Germany at
large as a critic, his among classical philologians
was immense, and it is chiefly to his violent attack upon the
Lygdamus elegies that we must ascribe the hopeless con-
fusion that has since arisen among scholars and that has
made the question of the authorship of these poems an in-
soluble ' mystery.
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period
