On the subject of 'perfection', Latin scholars look for the 'golden line' - which goes adjective-noun-verb-noun-adjective, where the first adj agrees with the second noun, and the first noun with the second adjective. For example, in Catullus poem 64, the story of Theseus and Ariadne, in which Theseus - the cad - abandons Ariadne on an island and rows off without her, "irrita ventosae linquens promissa procellae" ("leaving the useless promises of a windy storm (behind him)") ...