However, there is a limit to all things and in the noble task of conjecture hypercriticism is one such limit, and I would point to the clarifying contribution of Kenney on this danger in textual criticism ('Ut erat novator: Anomaly, Innovation and Genre in Ovid, Heroides 16-21', Adams and Mayer, Aspects of the Language in Latin Poetry, Oxford 1999, 399-414).