 Latin poetry offers several examples and variations on the "exclusus amator" ("shut-out lover") theme.Horace offers a less-than-serious lament in "Odes" 3.10 and even threatens the door in 3.26; Tibullus (1.2) appeals to the door itself; in Propertius (1.16), the door is the sole speaker.In Ovid's "Amores" (1.6), the speaker claims he would gladly trade places with the doorkeeper, a slave who is shackled to his post, as he begs the door-keeper to allow him access to his mistress, Corinna.