- figures. The
island is also
mentioned by
Lygdamus (Tib. 3.2.23), one of the
Tibullan elegists, as a rich
place from
which he will hope for
gifts to his grave...
-
length (820
lines + 718 lines). Poem 3.7,
unlike all the
other poems in the
Tibullan collection, is
written in
dactylic hexameters. It is a
panegyric of Messalla...
-
known to have
circulated independently and its lack of
engagement with
Tibullan or
Propertian elegy argue in
favor of its spuriousness; however, the poem...
-
others believe that they are
pseudepigrapha written many
years later in a
Tibullan style. The five
poems have 24, 24, 26, 20, and 20
lines respectively. There...
- of
Sulpicia and in the
Garland of
Sulpicia preserved in book 3 of the
Tibullan collection: the
phonetic similarity of the names, the
false etymology linking...
-
excessively rhetorical". The poem has 212 lines. It is the only poem in the
Tibullan corpus to be in
hexameters rather than
elegiac couplets. 1–17 The poet...
- poem of
disputed date and
authorship which forms part of book 3 of the
Tibullan corpus),
where the
author states that some, but not all, of his family's...
- of the
original text. J. H. Voss (1786) was the
first to
question the
Tibullan authorship of the poems.
Other scholars also
noted metrical, stylistic...
