5. 'Tibullus addressed Cynthia in this manner: "Te spectem, suprema, mihi cum venerit hora,

He had read Byron by stealth; he had been flogged into reading Ovid and Tibullus; and commanded by his private tutor to read Martial and Juvenal 'for the improvement of his style.'

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Ovid, as an immoral writer, was justly punished. Tibullus, also a famous elegiac poet, was born the same year as Ovid, and was the friend of the poet Horace.

Niebuhr pronounces the elegies of Tibullus to be doleful, but Merivale thinks that "the tone of tender melancholy in which he sung his unprosperous loves had a deeper and purer source than the caprices of three inconstant paramours....

" Propertius, the contemporary of Tibullus, born 51 B.C., was on the contrary the most eager of all the flatterers of Augustus,a man of wit and pleasure, whose object of idolatry was Cynthia, a poetess and a courtesan.

" Love's torches, touch-box, naphtha and matches, Tibullus.

Antony Diogenes the most ancient, whose epitome we find in Phocius Bibliotheca, Longus Sophista, Eustathius, Achilles, Tatius, Aristaenetus, Heliodorus, Plato, Plutarch, Lucian, Parthenius, Theodorus, Prodromus, Ovid, Catullus, Tibullus, &c.

Non me Pelignus, nec spernet Mantua vatem, Si qua Corinna mihi, si quis Alexis erit." "Wanton Propertius and witty Callus, Subtile Tibullus, and learned Catullus, It was Cynthia, Lesbia, Lychoris, That made you poets all; and if Alexis, Or Corinna chance my paramour to be, Virgil and Ovid shall not despise me.

It is not the taste of the ancients, "'tis not classical lore"nor the fashion of Tibullus, or Theocritus, or Anacreon, or Virgil, or Ariosto, or Pope, or Byron, or any great writer among the living or the dead, but it is the style of our English Anacreon, and it is (or was) the fashion of the day!

Nor was the tradition wholly obliterated in the age of Augustus, for Tibullus evidently congratulates himself upon his garret, not without some allusion to the Pythagorean precept: Quam juvat immites ventos audire cubantem Aut, gelidas hibernus aquas quum fuderit Auster, Securum somnos imbre juvante sequi!

Tibullus, the Roman poet, calls his lady-love "Delia," but what her real name was is not certain.

GRAINGER, Dr. James, character, his, ii. 454; Johnson's Shakespeare, anecdote of, i. 319, n. 3; Ode on Solitude, iii. 197; Sugar Cane, Johnson reviews it, i. 481; does not like it, ii. 454; mice altered to rats, ii. 453; Tibullus, translates, ii. 454.

The Cyclops, by Dr. Grainger, author of the translation of Tibullus.

No harm to lovers: the love of Sulpicia and Cerinthus as revealed in six poems by Sulpicia and six elegies by Albius Tibullus.

Their way of treating love was followed in detail by the Roman poets, especially Ovid, Catullus, Propertius, and Tibullus, and by the Greek novelists, Xenophon Ephesius, Heliodorus, Achilles Tatius, Chariton, Longus, etc., up to the fourth or fifth centuries (dates are uncertain) of our era.

And herein they were followed by those of the Latins who may be regarded as imitators of the AlexandriansCatullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid, the principal erotic poets of Rome.

In Tibullus there is a note of tenderness which, however, is a mark of effeminacy rather than of an improved manliness.

A French author who wrote a history of prostitution in three volumes quite properly devoted a chapter to Tibullus and his love-affairs.

Romans: Refined sensual love; Mercenary coyness; Amorous hyperbole; Sham gallantry; Suicide and love; Terence and Plautus; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius and Ovid.

The 2d, 3d, and 4th Elegies of the Fourth Book of Tibullus. 11. Elegy.

The Fifth Elegy of the First Book of Tibullus, translated, and addressed to Delia.

Further he says of him, that he hath prophesy'd his own poetry shall be sweeter than Catullus, Ovid and Tibullus; but we have little hope of the accomplishment of it from what he hath lately published.'

Tibullus seems to have been the model our author judiciously preferred to Ovid; the former writing directly from the heart to the heart, the latter too often yielding and addressing himself to the imagination.

In neglecting Tibullus and Propertius, Quintilian and the Plinies, Statius, Martial, even Terence and Plautus whose jargon full of neologisms, compound words and diminutives, could please him, but whose low comedy and gross humor he loathed, Des Esseintes only began to be interested in the Latin language with Lucan.