Ovid has been considered a highly inventive love elegist who plays with traditional elegiac conventions and elaborates the themes of the genre; Quintilian even calls him a "sportive" elegist.
Ovidi është konsideruar si një elegant, shum i dashur e krijues, i cila luan me konventat tradicionale elegikane dhe përpunon temat e zhanrit; Quintilian madje e quan atë elegist "sportiv".