This chapter presents a reading of Propertius 3.24. The final poem of Book 3 emphasises its status as an ending by claiming to dismiss Cynthia and resolving the early programmatic tensions of Propertian love-elegy. Yet this chapter argues that Propertius thereby creates a paradoxical tension between ending and failing to end. The Propertian narrator is ostensibly sincere in his claim to have been freed from love's delusions, yet an experienced reader of love-poetry will recognise such a claim by a lover to be yet more delusion, since the language of erotic closure is also the language of erotic 'false' closure. Propertius's renuntiatio amoris ('rejection of love') is coloured allusively by Catullus's failed attempts to move beyond his love for Lesbia. The way in which a reader might 'mis-read' Propertius's claim to reject love is further suggested by Ovid's allusive engagement with Propertius 3.24 – for Ovid, this Propertian moment is a flamboyant signal of the imminent resumption of erotic desire.