Editing Tibullus (section)

===Poem 3.19===
Poem 3.19 (24 lines) claims to be by Tibullus, but its authorship has been doubted.{{sfnp|Postgate|1911|p=930}} Radford (1923) believed it to be by Ovid, calling it an "exquisite 'imitation' of Tibullus which has itself been imitated and admired by so many English poets."<ref>Radford, R. S. (1923). [http://www.jstor.org/stable/289641 "Tibullus and Ovid: The Authorship of the Sulpicia and Cornutus Elegies in the Tibullan Corpus"]. ''The American Journal of Philology'', Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 1–26; p. 12.</ref> However, in a recent assessment of the poem, Stephen Heyworth (2021) believes that Tibullan authorship cannot be ruled out, and that it may even be a fragment from the lost ending of book 2.<ref>Heyworth, S. J. (2021). [https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e0cc0c2e-c389-4c8b-bace-0c28ff8bd272/download_file?safe_filename=Heyworth_2021_Author_of_Tibullus.pdf&file_format=pdf&type_of_work=Book+section "The author of [Tibullus] 3.19 and 3.20: anonymous or Tibullus?"]. Cambridge Philological Society.</ref>

In this poem the poet promises his (unnamed) girlfriend that no other girl will ever take her place. He swears this by Juno, the goddess he reveres most. He will never cease to be a slave at the altar of Venus, the goddess of love.

The poem appears twice in the main manuscript, the 14th-century Ambrosianus, once after 3.6 and again after 3.18.