Select Elegies of Propertius is a collection of elegiac poems written by the Roman poet Sextus Propertius in the first century BCE. This book, first published in 1881, features a selection of Propertius' most famous and influential works, which explore themes of love, loss, and political upheaval in ancient Rome. The poems are written in elegiac couplets, a traditional form of Roman poetry that consists of alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and...
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