Propertius

American  

[proh-pur-shee-uhs, -shuhs] / proʊˈpɜr ʃi əs, -ʃəs /

noun

1. Sextus c50–c15 b.c., Roman poet.

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Propertius British  

/ prəˈpɜːʃɪəs, -ʃəs /

noun

1. Sextus (ˈsɛkstəs). ?50–?15 _bc , Roman elegiac poet

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Example Sentences

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

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, in his nobler poetry, Catullus is ardent and impassioned, he is much more free from this taint than Ovid or Propertius.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.