Though 45% is a high proportion, it is not as high as in Ovid's mature work, the Ars Amatoria, where it reaches 57%. See: Radford, R. S. (1920). "The Juvenile Works of Ovid and the Spondaic Period of His Metrical Art".Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association,
Vol. 51 (1920), pp. 146–171; page 151.