![]() You, to whom gods grant an easy hearing, who live forever secure in mutual love, you stay behind. Lift me through furthest nations and seas, where never a woman can follow my track. I will suffer the heat and the knife bravely, if only freedom might speak as indignation wishes. Or you, my friends who, too late, would draw me back from error, search out the cure for a sick heart. Dulled Amor, in me, has lost his wits, and forgets the familiar paths he once travelled.īut you whose trickeries draw down the moon, whose task it is to seek revenge, through sacrifice on magic fires, go change my mistress’s mind, and make her cheeks grow paler than my own! Then I’ll believe you’ve power to lead rivers and stars wherever you wish, with Colchian charms. ![]() So he was able to overcome the swift-footed girl: such is the value of entreaty and effort in love. Then he lingered lovesick in Parthenium’s caves, and faced wild beasts there: thrashed, what is more, by the club of Hylaeus, the Centaur, he moaned, wounded, among Arcadia’s stones. Milanion, did not shirk hard labour, Tullus, my friend, in crushing fierce Atalanta, Iasus’s daughter. Amor it was who lowered my gaze of endless disdain, and, feet planted, bowed my head, till he taught me, recklessly, to scorn pure girls and live without sense, and this madness has not left me for one whole year now, though I do attract divine hostility. Book I.22:1-10 Propertius’s place of origin.Ĭynthia was the first, to my cost, to trap me with her eyes: I was untouched by love before then.Book I.21:1-10 Gallus speaks his own epitaph.Book I:20:1-52 The story of Hylas: a warning to Gallus. ![]() Book I.16:1-48 Cynthia’s threshold speaks.Book I.13:1-36 He predicts Gallus’s fate.Book I.12:1-20 Faithfulness in separation.Book I.9:1-34 Ponticus struck down by Love. ![]()
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