Tibullus
Americannoun
noun
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“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
In his senatorial days, I once heard a satirical lady mention him as "the moral flummery member from Massachusetts, quoting Tibullus!"
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward
Open upon a sofa was a pocket Tibullus; within a Dictionary of Decisions lay a well-read first volume of the Nouvelle Eloise.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
The generation to which Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, and Propertius belonged had passed through one of the worst crises of this long period of suffering.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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