He completed the editions of Virgil ( 1767 ) and Claudian ( 1760 ), which had been left unfinished by his uncle, and commenced an edition of Propertius, one of his best works, which was only half printed at the time of his death.

Like nearly all the elegists, Propertius ' work is dominated by the figure of a single woman, one he refers to throughout his poetry by the pseudonym Cynthia.

Sextus Propertius also described the town as a " den of licentiousness and vice " in one of his elegies.

In Homage to Sextus Propertius, for example, Pound " translated " parts of Propertius's elegies and by means of various modernizations of diction, drew attention to parallelisms existing between Propertius's situation and Pound's own, especially the pressures of living in an empire at war and Pound's desire to cease writing shorter lyrical poems and start on longer epic structures.

The pentameter often displayed a clearer caesura, as in this example from Propertius:

Pound identified in Propertius an example of what he called ( in " How to Read ") ' logopoeia ', " the dance of the intellect among words.

* notes to Bernard's Thomas Magister, to Alberti's Hesychius of Alexandria, to Johann August Ernesti's Callimachus and to Pieter Burmann the Younger's Propertius.

* English translations of Propertius with introductory essay and notes by Jon Corelis

Propertius frequently compliments her as docta puella ' learned girl ', and, like Sulpicia, she herself was a writer of verse.

The most important of the year-round watercourses is the Clitunno River, celebrated in Antiquity as the Clitumnus whose deified waters were reputed to have miraculous properties, and which have been lauded in prose and verse by Pliny the Younger, Propertius, Claudian, Addison, Byron and Carducci.

Mimnermus in turn exerted a strong influence on Hellenistic poets such as Callimachus and thus also on Roman poets such as Propertius, who even preferred him to Homer for his eloquence on love themes ( see Comments by other poets below ).

This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria, in Stephen of Byzantium ( Kopai and Argunnos ), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.

Catullus, the first of these, is an invaluable link between the Alexandrine school and the subsequent elegies of Tibullus and Propertius a generation later.

Roman poets, including Propertius, Ovid, and Statius, name the river as the Styx, perhaps following the geography of Virgil ’ s underworld in the Aeneid, where Charon is associated with both rivers.

Tibullus is smoother and more musical, but liable to become monotonous ; Propertius, with occasional harshnesses, is more vigorous and varied.

" (" In Elegy as well we rival the Greeks ; of whom for me the author Tibullus seems the most polished and elegant ; there are those who prefer Propertius ; Ovid is more wanton than either, just as Gallus is more stern.

The thirteenth poem ( twenty-four lines ) claims to be by Tibullus ; but it is hardly more than a cento from Tibullus and Propertius.

The Codex cuiacianus, a late manuscript containing Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, is still extant.

Brief notices are given of Greek and Roman literature, but no mention is made of Plautus, Horace or Propertius.

* Propertius duskywing butterfly Erynnis propertius, sole larval food plant is oak

Hostius is supposed by some to be the doctus avus alluded to in Propertius ( iii.

( Glauce is also known in Latin works as Creusa — see Seneca the Younger's Medea and Propertius 2. 16. 30.

Very little information is known about Propertius outside of his own writing.

His praenomen " Sextus " is mentioned by Aelius Donatus, a few manuscripts list him as " Sextus Propertius ", but the rest of his name is unknown.

It is also possible that Propertius had children, either with Cynthia or a later liaison.

Apuleius identifies her as a woman named Hostia, and Propertius suggests she is a descendent of the Roman poet Hostius.

It is difficult to precisely date many of Propertius ' poems, but they chronicle the kind of declarations, passions, jealousies, quarrels, and lamentations that were commonplace subjects among the Latin elegists.

Propertius ' style is marked by seemingly abrupt transitions ( in the manner of Latin neoteric poetry ) and a high and imaginative allusion, often to the more obscure passages of Greek and Roman myth and legend.

More modern critics have pointed out that all the proposed rearrangements assume Propertius ' original poetry adhered strictly to the classical literary principles as set down by Aristotle, and so the apparent jumble is a result of manuscript corruptions.

Another possibility is that Propertius was deliberately presenting disjointed images in violation of principles such as the Classical Unities, a theory which argues for different unifying structures in Propertius ' elegies.

Maecenas endeavoured also to divert the less masculine genius of Propertius from harping continually on his love to themes of public interest.

The Roman love elegy of Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid ( Amores, Heroides ), with its focus on the poetic " I " and the expression of personal feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, renaissance, Romantic and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets, and so were not lyric poetry in the ancient sense.

Propertius published a first book of love elegies in 25 BCE, with Cynthia herself as the main theme ; the book's complete devotion gave it the natural title Cynthia Monobiblos.

Other than epitaphs, examples of ancient elegy as a poem of mourning include Catullus ' Carmen 101, on his dead brother, and elegies by Propertius on his dead mistress Cynthia and a matriarch of the prominent Cornelian family.

The poet Sextus Propertius, described the Battle of Philippi as " civilia busta " or " sepulchre of citizens ".

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.

" Lazarus went on to cite Capp as one of the " four essentials " in the field of newspaper cartoonists, along with Walt Kelly, Charles Schulz and Milton Caniff.

To cite one example, in 1978 Genentech developed synthetic humanized insulin by joining its gene with a plasmid vector inserted into the bacterium Escherichia coli.

Some Jews contend that Christians cite commandments from the Old Testament to support one point of view but then ignore other commandments of a similar class that are also of equal weight.

Most of the futuristic-themed films of this period have been lost, but critics cite Thais by Anton Giulio Bragaglia ( 1917 ) as one of the most influential, serving as the main inspiration for the upcoming German Expressionist cinema.

Goldziher writes, in his Mohammedan Studies: "... it is not surprising that, among the hotly debated controversial issues of Islam, whether political or doctrinal, there is not one in which the champions of the various views are unable to cite a number of traditions, all equipped with imposing isnads ".

In 12th and 13th century England, the ability to cite a particular passage from the Bible entitled a common law defendant to the so-called benefit of clergy, i. e. trial before an ecclesiastical court, where sentences were more lenient, instead of a secular one, where hanging was a likely sentence.

Such authors cite as one example that the CIA's KUBARK interrogation manual refers to " studies at McGill University ", and that most of the techniques recommended in KUBARK are exactly those that researcher Donald Ewen Cameron used on his test subjects ( sensory deprivation, drugs, isolation, etc.

* In Ancient Rome, one of the two formal ways of indicating a year was to cite the two annual consuls who served in that year.

Local experts and criminologists cite gang recruitment as one possible cause of the rise in crime in Memphis, and a reduction of 66 % of federal funding to the Memphis Police Department.

" Although Tom Bissell asserts that no one knows why Boba Fett has become so popular, nor cares why, both Lucas and Bulloch cite Fett's mysterious nature as reasons for his popularity.

In legal writing, it is used whenever one must cite a specific paragraph within pleadings, law review articles, statutes, or other legal documents and materials.

In jazz one could cite a first wave of experimenters associated with bebop, such as Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, and Bud Powell, and then a second wave associated with free jazz, including Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, and the later recordings of John Coltrane.

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Historians cite his reluctance to participate in the trials as one of the reasons that the witch hysteria did not take as deep a root in Haverhill as it did in the neighboring town of Andover, which had among the most victims of the trials.

For disambiguating one genus-group name from its homonym, it is important to cite author and year.

The film has gained cult favorite status over time, however, and in a commentary track on the DVD edition of his 2007 feature Tideland, Gilliam now says that Munchausen is one of the films that his fans most often cite as a favorite ( along with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ).

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