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Propertius
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Pro·per·tius  (pr-pûrshs, -sh-s), Sextus 50?-15? b.c.
Roman poet whose extant works include Cynthia, an elegy on his former lover.

Propertius [prəˈpɜːʃɪəs -ʃəs]
n
(Biographies / Propertius, Sextus (?50 bc-?15 bc) M, Roman, WRITING: poet) Sextus (ˈsɛkstəs). ?50-?15 bc, Roman elegiac poet


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Slavitt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Sextus Propertius, Charm, translated by Vincent Katz (Sun & Moon Press, 1995); Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1996).
00 Hardcover PA6646 Presumably classicists, though only identified by name, the contributors introduce Sextus Propertius (50-16 BC), considered to be one of the most difficult of the Latin poets.
Kar exists in a memory maze with such figures as Sextus Propertius, Goethe, Joseph Conrad, Italo Svevo, Osip Mandelshtam, and Anna Karenina, who meet and interact at their exclusive Society of International Vanity.
 
 
 
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