The Cynthia of Propertius: Being the First Book of His Elegies (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Great compression, for into their sixteen syllables has to be packed the sense which in the Latin occupies some twenty-eight. Only twice have I felt compelled to expand a Latin couplet into four lines. Yet I h0pe I have not often missed out any material element of the poet's thought. In the distichs of Propertius, as in the Psalms of David, there is frequently to be observed an antiphonal character; the ideas of the hexameter being repeated in a more or less varied form in the pentameter. This feature not only aids the process of com pression, but often supplies a valuable key to correct interpretation. I shall be satisfied if the reader considers that, supposing my lines were the original, the Latin of Propertius is a just rendering of them. That is the criterion which I have applied to myself. Of the beauty and variety of his cadences I lament my in ability to convey any idea.

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