at rome the poets of the late republic and augustan age continued the hellenistic period's allusive engagement with the "catalogue". catullus, a poet who made plain his callimachean affiliations, is the earliest roman author who can be seen to engage with the "catalogue". in his epyllion on the wedding of peleus and thetis, catullus alludes to the theoxeny that the proem to the "catalogue" presented as a defining characteristic of the heroic age and to the epithalamium of the couple that was sung in a later book. in the "aeneid" vergil closes his catalogue of combatants with the swift female warrior camilla, alluding to the hesiodic account of iphiclus' speed in "a remarkably subtle nod to tradition in the best alexandrian style." ovid picked up on vergil's allusion in the "metamorphoses" with his treatment of atalanta, which recast's his roman forbearer's allusion to iphiclus in such a way that it highlights the hesiodic character of his own poem in contrast with the homeric character of the "aeneid".