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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Tibullus

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

From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017

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 James J. Walsh

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 W. Y. Sellar

I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid....

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

And Tibullus, in a panegyric on Marcella, wrote, "A little cake, a little morsel of bread, appeased the divinities."

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves