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... probably due to confusion with the Christian poet Prudentius , a later age finding no difficulty in his Birthplace . Like most of the great poets of Italy INTRODUCTION ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF PROPERTIUS Chapter Life and Character.
... probably due to confusion with the Christian poet Prudentius , a later age finding no difficulty in his Birthplace . Like most of the great poets of Italy INTRODUCTION ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF PROPERTIUS Chapter Life and Character.
Page xvi
... probably be near the mark in making him from six to eight years older than Ovid and in putting the year of his birth as 50 or thereabouts . The His youth was crowded with misfortunes . He lost his father early , and , soon after , his ...
... probably be near the mark in making him from six to eight years older than Ovid and in putting the year of his birth as 50 or thereabouts . The His youth was crowded with misfortunes . He lost his father early , and , soon after , his ...
Page xvii
... probably related to the poet by the mother's side . Whether there was anything saved from the wreck of the poet's property is not known . He and his mother may have found shelter with her own kinsmen , or her own property may have been ...
... probably related to the poet by the mother's side . Whether there was anything saved from the wreck of the poet's property is not known . He and his mother may have found shelter with her own kinsmen , or her own property may have been ...
Page xviii
... probably a present from Propertius . Horace puts the minimum for a man at ten , Sat. 1. 3. 12. She had no near relations alive with the excep- tion of her mother and sister ( II . 6. 11 , 12 ) who probably died before her , or they ...
... probably a present from Propertius . Horace puts the minimum for a man at ten , Sat. 1. 3. 12. She had no near relations alive with the excep- tion of her mother and sister ( II . 6. 11 , 12 ) who probably died before her , or they ...
Page xix
... Probably she had some . At any rate she seems to have entertained for Propertius all the affection of which she was capable " . beauty of her eyes occur again and again , beginning with the very first line , Cynthia prima suis miserum ...
... Probably she had some . At any rate she seems to have entertained for Propertius all the affection of which she was capable " . beauty of her eyes occur again and again , beginning with the very first line , Cynthia prima suis miserum ...
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