Select elegies, ed. with intr., notes and appendices by J.P. Postgate - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...of Borne.' III. i. Introduction. This poem is an announcement that Propertius intends to abandon love themes and celebrate the feats of Augustus. It is a very vexed question whether it is the introduction to a fresh book. If it is, it must be regarded as a false start, as only one poem in the book (xxix., the opening of the temple of the Palatine Apollo,) has anything to do with Augustus. See more in the Introduction. There is little doubt about the time it was written. It must have been written when the expedition of Aelius Gallus into Arabia was in contemplation or progress, and before its disastrous termination in B.C. 24. The negotiations with Phraates were also pending which were concluded in B.C. 23. Hence it was probably composed in the first half of B. C. 24. Cf. note on 1. 15. Argument. I must change my subject and take a bolder flight. Enough of love. I will sing of war (1--12). Parthia, India, Arabia, the furthest land in the world shall all be subdued to Augustus. This is the great theme that is to inspire me (13--20). This is my humble offering to his greatness (21--26). 1--6. 'But now 'tis the time to bid other dances pass over Helicon; 'tis time to let the Haemonian steed range over the plain. Now am I fain to sing the squadrons' courage for the fight and to tell of the warfare of my chief for Borne. Though strength fail me, yet daring surely will be merit: in great things it is enough even to have shewn the will.' 1. sed breaks off the train of thought and introduces a new one. So Ter. Ph. 5. 5. 5 An. ted Phormiost, quid ais? at is generally used for this purpose at the beginning of a book; so Aen. 4.1 at regina, &c. aliis choreis, i.e. not the mollet choros of in. 32 (26). 42, but the severer measures of epic poetry. For the metaphor se...

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