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Overview. Propertius. (c. 50—16 bc) Quick Reference. Roman elegiac poet, between 54 and 47 bc, at Asisium, where his family were local notables. His father died early, and the family property was diminished by Octavian's confiscations of 41–40 bc (see augustus; proscription)—not so diminished, however, that Propertius needed to earn a living.
Feb 26, 2020 · Introduction. The scarce information we possess of Propertius’s life must be deduced almost completely from what the poet himself tells us in his works. His praenomen Sextus is attested by Suetonius in his vita of Virgil (31.3 Brugnoli/Stok).
Prologue poem, addressed to Tullus. 1 Cynthia was the first. She caught me with her eyes, a fool. who had never before been touched by desires. I really hung my head in shame. when Love pressed down on it with his feet. He taught me to hate chaste girls! He was cruel when he told me to live without plan. It's already been a whole year that the ...
hoc, moneo, vitate malum: sua quemque moretur. cura, neque assueto mutet amore locum. quod si quis monitis tardas adverterit auris, heu referet quanto verba dolore mea! Propertius. Charm. Vincent Katz. trans. Los Angeles. Sun & Moon Press. 1995. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
Contents. Book IV.1:1-70 Rome and its history. Book IV.1A:71-150 Horos’ soliloquy: Propertius’ role. Book IV.2:1-64 The God Vertumnus. Book IV.3:1-72 A wife’s letter. Book IV.4:1-94 The Tarpeian Hill. Book IV.5:1-78 Elegy for the Procuress. Book IV.6:1-86 The Temple of Palatine Apollo.
View cloth edition. The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives, while in later poems he turns to mythological themes and the ...
Jul 7, 2016 · Overview. Contents. About this book. The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow.
