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Albius Tibullus (c. 55 BC – c. 19 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. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to him are of questionable origins.
Tibullus book 1 is the first of two books of poems by the Roman poet Tibullus (c. 56–c.19 BC). It contains ten poems written in Latin elegiac couplets, and is thought to have been published about 27 or 26 BC.
By the time Tibullus wrote these poems, Delia (Tibullus's girlfriend in book 1) had disappeared, and another woman called Nemesis had taken her place. Tibullus says he has been in love with her for a year (2.5.119). She is named after Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution. Like Delia, Nemesis appears to have been a high-class courtesan.
The elegiac couplet is presumed to be the oldest Greek form of epodic poetry (a form where a later verse is sung in response or comment to a previous one). Scholars, who even in the past did not know who created it, [3] theorize the form was originally used in Ionian dirges, with the name "elegy" derived from the Greek ε, λεγε ε, λεγε—"Woe, cry woe, cry!"
This judgement also seems to be upheld by Quintilian, who ranks the elegies of Tibullus higher and, while accepting that others preferred Propertius, [30] is himself somewhat dismissive of the poet. However, Propertius' popularity is attested by the presence of his verses in the graffiti preserved at Pompeii ; while Ovid , for example, drew on ...
Duinskie elegii Дуинские элегии [Duino Elegies] (PDF) (in Russian). Translated by Mikushevich, Vladimir Borisovich. ImWerdenVerlag. 2002.
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There are also several verbal echoes in the Garland with Tibullus 2.2 (the birthday poem for Cornutus). [9] For example, the chains (vincla) which Sulpicia prays may bind her and Cerinthus in 3.9 and 3.11 in the Garland echo the vincula which Tibullus prays may join Cornutus and his wife in 2.2. The incense burning on the altar in the birthday ...