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
Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
VII, Pope, 331.Clitumnus, river, 5; Propertius lived near, 8; 350.Comacine builders, Guild of, 321; house of, in Assisi, 322.Confraternity of San Crispino, 316.——
From The Story of Assisi by Gordon, Lina Duff
Tibullus to a certain extent, but still more Propertius and Ovid, followed in the same line.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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