Possible Clues:

• Military trial
• Form of trial: make up to mother before it
• Look for wife with marital trouble and try from a general perspective?
• Tribunal where service charges are settled
• Try to gain approval from officer in hearing — this one?
• Soldiers tried here to cultivate appropriate kind of arts
• Roman poet following attempt to win in tribunal
• First woo with marital potential on trial
• Try to date poet
• Military justice