Perhaps more immediate than Ezra Pound's ""Homage..."" are The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius himself, in Latin and translated by veteran poet and translator Vincent Katz (Understanding Objects ...

Sextus Propertius (c. 50-45-c.15 B.C.) was a Latin Poet, born in Assisium (modern-day Assisi, in central Italy) and one of the last great poets of the Augustan age. His work consists of four books of ...

His aesthetic theories on poetry had a lasting influence on classical Roman poetry — including that of the Roman greats, Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid, and subsequently on Western ...

Die Elegien des Sextus Propertius, I2 (Berlin, 1920 L. Friedländer, Darstellungen aus der Sittengeschichte Roms10 (Leipzig, 1922), I, 321 ...