Propertius
Americannoun
noun
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Excerpts of the work in progress were already impressing fellow-writers by the mid-twenties B.C., when the love poet Propertius wrote that “something greater than the Iliad is being born.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought�the war between the sexes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Already a prodigious classics scholar at 18, he spent his days emendating the Latin poet Propertius instead of reading the syllabus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lines of poetry, chiefly suited for lovers in dejection or triumph, are popular, and Ovid and Propertius appear to be favourites.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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