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Me dolor et lachrymx raerito fecere peritum.— 



Anguifh and tears have made me learned in love. 



Ferte per extremas gentes et ferte per undas, 

 Qua non ulla meum femina norit iter. 



Bear me to deferts, waft me o'er the main, 

 From perjur'd woman far, and far from pain ! 



In his elegy to Callus, who had feme defign of rivalling him, in the 

 affeftions of Cynthia, he fays, 



Sed pariter miferi focio cogemur amore, 

 Alter in alterius mutua flere finu. 

 Quare quid pollit mea Cynthia, define, Calk, 

 Quasrere : non impune ilia rogata venit. 



Then we with kindred care and love pofleft, 

 Shall pour our forrows on each others breaft; 

 Then feek not. Gal/us, feek not thou to know 

 My Cynthia's charms, nor fell thy days to woe. — 



He concludes an elegy to his friend Tullus, with faying. 



Turn tibi fi qua mel Venice non Immemor hora, 

 Vivere fub dure fidere certus eris. 



If to thy friend a fond remembrance ftrays,- 

 That friend in forrow wears his ling'ring days. 



and in the third elegy of the firfl; book, he introduces his miftrels 

 expoflulating with him, in a paiEonate and jealous drain ; which {hews 

 that their uneafinefs was mutual. 



Propertius feems to be the only writer, among the antients, who had 

 any notion of the dignity and value of the female charafter, or the 

 heightening and improvement, that the pleafures of love receive from 

 fentiment, and the intercourfe of mind. He is one of the firfl poets, 

 who intimate that a tender attachment may fubfift, independent of mere 



perfonal 



