The Elegies of Tibullus
Tibullus (Theodore Chickering Williams, trans.) · -19
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Description
Tibullus, a Roman knight of the Augustan age, wrote love elegies that prize the quiet farm over the camp and the court. Theodore Chickering Williams turned the whole Corpus Tibullianum into English verse. The four books gather poems by Tibullus and by hands in his circle.
Delia rules the first book and Nemesis the second, while the poet dreams of a small farm and a faithful hearth. Later books sing of Messalla, his patron, and of Sulpicia, a woman poet of the house. Tibullus is the soft third voice of Latin love elegy, beside Propertius and Ovid. His longing for the countryside still reads fresh.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tibullus (Theodore Chickering Williams, trans.) |
|---|---|
| YEAR | -19 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 89 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |