"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."
— Domitius Marsus

January 1, 1970

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Poets from Rome
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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)