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About Propertius

Propertius was Roman 1st-century bc roman elegiac poet. Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.”
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“Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.”
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“Give the historians something to write about.”
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“Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.”
— Propertius
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