"Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle, Mors iuvenem campos misit ad Elysios, ne foret aut elegis mollis qui fleret amores aut caneret forti regia bella pede."
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On the Death, in the same year, of Virgil and Tibullus. Published with the corpus of Tibullus's poetry. Translated by J. B. Postgate, LCL 6 (1913)
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Domitius Marsus
was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and Tibullus, and contemporary of Horace.
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