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From Cynthia with her eyes ...: an autobiography of Sextus Propertius.(Short story)
From:
TriQuarterly
| Date:
January 1, 2006| Author:
Zullino, Pietro
| COPYRIGHT 2006 TriQuarterly. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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From [section][section] VII-XIV and [section] XXXVIII
VII
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I have written three books of love elegies. If the fourth is to be published, it will be by others, cut-off and in disorder, half underground. Where I am now, I can't touch it; and if they don't send it to me, I won't even see it.
And everyone will think it's posthumous, since the world no longer has news of me. After all, Maecenas, by the time of the second book, made it c...
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