Sex, Aurelii Propertii Carmina

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Excerpt from Sex, Aurelii Propertii Carmina: The Elegies of Propertius, With English Notes The former edition of Propertius, with English notes, was published in 1853. Though the work was composed under rather unfavourable circumstances, and with but few books available for reference or consultation, and though Propertius then was, as he even now is, but little read, compared with the contemporary poets Horace, Ovid, and Virgil, yet it gradually made its way, and in fact, has for some years been out of print. During the long interval since its first appearance, it may be supposed that I have been enabled to make many important improvements. To the fifth book especially, which is at once the most difficult and the most interesting, I have written nearly a new commentary, and with much fuller explanations than before. While I adhere to the opinion I formerly expressed, that it is "a reproach to the scholarship of this country that one of the most beautiful, interesting, and historically important of the Augustan Poets should remain unheeded and almost unknown, " I may yet venture to think that some little advance has been made in the favourable estimate of the merits of Propertius by the mere fact of the poet having been edited in the present convenient form. I still feel some surprise that none of our English scholars have undertaken the work in a more thorough way, and with the painstaking minuteness that characterise the commentaries of Conington, Mayor, Ellis, and Munro. For I am not only quite unable myself to devote the necessary time and research even to the attempt at such a task, but I am now more fully aware of the extreme difficulties, both critical and exegetical, that beset this author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.