Tibullus

American  

[ti-buhl-uhs] / tɪˈbʌl əs /

noun

1. Albius c54–c19 b.c., Roman poet.

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Tibullus British  

/ tɪˈbʌləs /

noun

1. Albius (ˈælbɪəs). ?54–?19 _bc , Roman elegiac poet

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Example Sentences

Then a formula—‘scripsi et dico me’—so the man’s name is Tibullus, his status is the freedman of Venustus, and he’s saying, ‘I write and I say.’

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

So we have Tibullus the freedman of Venustus.

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

“Here’s the word ‘Tibullus’—he’s the only Tibullus I can find.

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

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

Though he died at the early age of forty, we owe to him valuable textual criticisms of Lucretius, Propertius, Ovid, Statius, Ausonius, Celsus, Quintilian, Festus, and Catullus and Tibullus.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.