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Here and there, the anonymous poet of Ovide moralisé intersperses his immense poem, translating and commenting on the Metamorphoses, with passages often taken from other Ovidian works, thus foreign to the hypotext. This article presents an analysis of one of those passages which, at first glance, might be considered curious textual contaminations, pieces inserted for the sheer pleasure of compilation, and which seemingly serve no function beyond that of embellishing the text. The first part of the analysis identifies the sources of the passage in question (Ovide moralisé, xiv, v. 5660–5774). As it happens, the French poet used the Fasti to reconstruct the myth of Romulus in his own way. The second part demonstrates even more interesting results: each stage of the myth has been juxtaposed with an episode from the history of Salvation (Ovide moralisé, xiv, v. 5995–6120). By systematically developing this allegorization, our poet shows great creativity.