Very little information is known about Propertius outside of his own writing. His praenomen "Sextus" is mentioned by Aelius Donatus, a few manuscripts list him as "Sextus Propertius", but the rest of his name is unknown. … See more

Propertius' fame rests on his four books of elegies, totaling around 92 poems (the exact number cannot be known as over the intervening years, scholars have divided and regrouped the poems, creating doubt as to the precise number). All his poems are … See more

In the 20th century Ezra Pound's poem "Homage to Sextus Propertius" cast Propertius as something of a satirist and political dissident, and his translation/interpretation … See more

• Breed, B. (2010). "Propertius on Not Writing about Civil Wars." In Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars. Oxford: Oxford University … See more

The text contains many syntactic, organizational and logical problems as it has survived. Some of these are no doubt exacerbated by … See more

Propertius himself says he was popular and even scandalous in his own day. Horace, however, says that he would have to "endure much" and "stop up his ears" if he had to listen to " See more

• Emil Baehrens, Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1880
• John Percival Postgate, Cambridge, 1894 See more