Tibullus
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Tibullus's chief friend and patron was Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, himself an orator and poet as well as a statesman and a commander. Messalla, like Gaius Maecenas, was at the centre of a literary circle in Rome. This circle had no relationship with the court, and the name of Augustus is found nowhere in the writings of Tibullus. About 30 BC Messalla was dispatched by Augustus to Gaul to quell a rising in Aquitania and restore order in the country, and Tibullus may have been in his retinu
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22 sectionsContents
- Life
- Horace and Tibullus
- First book of poetry
- The Marathus cycle
- Second book of poetry
- Third book of poetry
- Lygdamus elegies
- ''Panegyricus Messallae''
- Garland of Sulpicia
- Sulpicia epigrams
- Poem 3.19
- Poem 3.20
- Epitaph
- Style of writing
- The ''Vita Tibulli''
- Manuscripts
- Editions
- Critiques
- References
- Citations
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|300px|Lawrence Alma-Tadema, ''Tibullus at Delia's
Albius Tibullus ( BC BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to him are of questionable origins.