TY  - BOOK
AU  - Propertius,Sextus
AU  - Katz,Vincent
TI  - The complete elegies of Sextus Propertius
T2  - Lockert library of poetry in translation
SN  - 9781400884131
AV  - PA6645.E5 K355 2004
U1  - 874/.01 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Propertius, Sextus.
KW  - Elegiac poetry, Latin
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Love poetry, Latin
KW  - Po�esie �el�egiaque latine
KW  - Traductions anglaises
KW  - Po�esie d'amour latine
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS
KW  - Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POETRY
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Translations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Preserving the Metaphor: Translating Propertius; Vincent Katz --; "Cynthia was the first. She caught me with her eyes" --; "nude Love doesn't love artifice in beauty" --; "although a pair commanded me, gripped with lust" --; "Cynthia is tried by no curse more gravely / than when grace abandons her" --; "she comes with a price" --; "I wasn't born to praise or fighting" --; "This is how my life's used up" --; "Can your tender feet brave the frosts?" --; "Rare Cynthia is mine!" --; "I told you how love would be, and you laughed" --; "not light is the medicine in my words" --; "in the Bay of Naples no love is safe" --; "Cynthia was the first, Cynthia will be the last" --; "She will be punishment for the despised pain of all of them" --; "I'll despise Alcinous' gifts" --; "be whatever you want, just not alien" --; "Once I was opened to great triumphs" --; "God damn him! who first prepared ship and sail" --; "let the rocks be full of your name" --; "There, whatever I'll be, I'll always be called your image" --; "You've been warned, Gallus: protect your love" --; "Gallus ... / tried to escape unknown hands -- but was not able" --; "What class I am and from where" --; "The girl alone erects my genius" --; "Love got the better of me" --; "You are the first Roman girl to recline at Jove's table" --; "Let him like boys, if he will be my friend" --; "this verse, Cynthia, will be your pallor" --; "A wife never, never will a friend lead me astray" --; "conquered nations are worth nothing in love" --; "Are you going to die then, Propertius, still so young?"
N2  - Vincent Katz offers translations of all 107 known poems by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius, a contemporary of Ovid. The translations keep as closely as possible to the original syntax, as Propertius' willful compressions & unusual tellings of myth are definitive of his poetics
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