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
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
Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a follower of the Alexandrians, and is mentioned by Propertius and Ovid as their own precursor in elegiac poetry.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
The statement made there that the real name of the Cynthia of Propertius was Hostia, is confirmed by the line in one of his elegies, Splendidaque a docto fama refulget avo26.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
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