When Romans wrote letters, they often used the imperfect past to refer to the present, as if the writer is putting himself into the future when the letter is be

When Romans wrote letters, they often used the imperfect past to refer to the present, as if the writer is putting himself into the future when the letter is being read, not when it is being written. It is merely a conventional use of the imperfect in Latin, but I'm sure someone has, at some point, given this tendency a label like "epistolary present". This article mentioned the prophetic perfect is something described by Hebrew grammarians, but doesn't mention if there is any special language feature of Hebrew. Is there some special morphology associated with prophetic perfect, or is this just a label for the use of the perfect, much like "epistolary present"?