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Paraclausithyron
Paraclausithyron is a motif in Greek and especially Augustan love elegy, in which the speaker as lover stands outside the beloved's locked door and complains that he cannot get in. Catullus (67) engages the door in dialogue; Horace offers a less-than-serious lament in Odes 3.
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