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Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstacy to suicidal despair.

The son of an Umbrian landowner who fought on the wrong side in the Civil War after Caesar's murder, he lost his father and most of his family estate in boyhood and was brought up by his mother. He was able nevertheless to reject a legal or military career and to devote his life to the art of poetry, in which he is a far more self-conscious practitioner than most of the other Latin poets. His modern popularity was furthered in particular by Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919).

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Concordances, English prose literature, Glossaries, Glossaries, vocabularies, History and criticism, In literature, Language, Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Love poetry, Latin language, Literatura latina, Man-woman relationships, Poetry, Rome, Rome in literature, Translations from Latin, Translations in French, Translations into English, Translations into French, Translations into German, Translations into Portuguese, Translations into Russian, Translations into Spanish, Translations into modern Greek, Word frequency, Latin language materials, English Elegiac poetry, Poésie d'amour latine, Poésie élégiaque latine, Traductions anglaises, Élégies latines, Latin poetry, translations into english, Elegiac poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Propertius, sextus, Elegiac poetry, history and criticism, Latin poetry, history and criticism, Poetry, collections, Love poetry, Latin poetry, Translations, Latin language, glossaries, vocabularies, etc., Technical education, Universities and colleges, Translations into englishpropertius, sextus, Elegiac poetry, latin--translations into english, Love poetry, latin--translations into english, Man-woman relationships--rome--poetry, Pa6645.e5 m8, 874/.01, Poetry - general & miscellaneous, Ancient roman poetry
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Elegies.
2006, Cambridge University Press
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Propertius: Elegies I-IV (American Philological Association Series of Classical Texts)
December 31, 2006, University of Oklahoma Press
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Elegies: book II
1967, Cambridge University Press
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Elegiae.: Recensuit Lucianus Mueller. Ed. stereotypa.
1910, In aedibus B.G. Teubneri
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Propertius
1906, The Clarendon press
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Propertius
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Carmina.: Recognovit Joh. Percival Postgate.
1894, G. Bell
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Elegiarum libri 4.: Recensuit Aemilius Baehrens.
1880, B.G. Teubner
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Elegiae quaedam Propertii suethicis versibus expressae annotationibusque instructae
1869, Typis J. A. Granberg
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Die drei letzen Elegien des IV. Buchs des Propertius
1850, C. Hörmann
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Elegiarum libri 4.: Cum commentario perpetuo Petri Burmanni Secundi, et multis doctorum notis ineditis. Opus Burmanni morte interruptum, Laurentius Santenius absolvit.
1780, Apud B. Wild
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-252) and indexes.

Text in Latin; introduction and commentary in English.

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Cambridge, UK, New York
Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin classics
Other Titles
Elegies., Elegies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
874.01
Library of Congress
PA6644.B4 2006, PA6644.B4, PA6644.B4 H88 2006

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Pagination
xi, 258 p. ;
Number of pages
258

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OL20401757M
ISBN 10
0521819571, 0521525616
ISBN 13
9780521819572, 9780521525619
LCCN
2006286639
OCLC/WorldCat
69484196
Library Thing
1468225
Goodreads
907164

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"CYNTHIA was the first To capture with her eyes my pitiable self: Till then I was free from desire's contagion."

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