Propertius
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 47 BC
- Died
- 15 BC
- Works
- 132
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- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 18
Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet who was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium) and died shortly after 15 BC.[1] Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of Elegies. He was friends with the poets Gallus and Virgil, and had with them as his patron Maecenas, and through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus. Life 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
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thumb|Auguste Vinchon, Propertius and Cynthia at Tivoli
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium (now Assisi) and died shortly after 15 BC.