At a book and a bit, Statius’ Achilleid has barely got underway before it breaks off. This paper provides further arguments for the thesis, most fully articulated by Peter Heslin, that the ending of the Achilleid is not an abrupt break, the result of the author’s death or incapacity, or of an accident of transmission, but that it shows signs of being a carefully calculated provisional ending. The last two lines of book 2 are marked by signals both of closure and of the promise of continuation, reinforced by intertextuality with Statius’ Thebaid. Furthermore, the fragment of book 2 itself displays evidence of ring composition.