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No sooner were they before the public than they became universally popular, combining as they do the personal experiences already made familiar to Roman audiences through Tibullus and Propertius, with a levity, a dash, a gaiety, and a brilliant polish, far surpassing anything that his more serious predecessors had attained.
Roman Jurisprudence. 10. Grammarians. Development of the Roman Literature. 2. Mimes, Mimographers, Pantomime; Laberius and P. Lyrus. 3. Epic Poetry; Virgil; The Aeneid. 4. Didactic Poetry; the Bucolics; the Georgics; Lucretius. 5. Lyric Poetry; Catullus; Horace. 6. Elegy; Tibullus; Propertius; Ovid. 7. Oratory and Philosophy; Cicero. 8. History; J. Caesar; Sallust; Livy. 9. Other Prose Writers.
In a letter to Cornelius he mentions the following authors as his poetic models Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, Statius, Martial, Claudian, Persius, Lucan, Tibullus, Propertius. In prose he imitates Cicero, Quintilian, Sallust, and Terence, whose metrical character had not yet been recognized.
In the tenth elegy of the fourth book, De Tristibus, he observes, that the fates had allowed little time for the cultivation of his friendship with Tibullus. Virgilium vidi tantum: nec avara Tibullo Tempus amicitiae fata dedere meae. Successor fuit hic tibi, Galle; Propertius illi: Quartus ab his serie temporis ipse fui. Utque ego majores, sic me coluere minores.
He gave it immediate recognition in his Eclogues, and Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid became his followers. The poems of Gallus, if the Arcadian setting is real, were probably written soon after Philippi. Vergil's Eclogue of recognition may have been composed not much later, for we have a right to assume that Vergil would have had one of the first copies of Gallus' poems.
The inflated invocation of the ghost of Callimachus laid him fatally open to the quietly disdainful reference by which, without even mentioning Propertius by name, Horace met it a year or two later in the second book of the Epistles.
Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, and Livy greatest of Latin poets and scholars belonged to the Augustan Age, a name since applied in France to the reign of Louis XIV., in England to that of Queen Anne. By REV. A. A. LAMBING, LL.D. Biographical history presents few characters more interesting either to the statesman or the churchman than that of St. Ambrose.
Munro's assertion as to there being indications that the school of Lucretius and Catullus would have necessarily come into collision with that of the Augustan poets, had the former survived to their time, is supported by Horace's attitude. Virgil and Tibullus would have found many points of union, so probably would Gallus; but Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, would certainly have been antagonistic.
"Nunc," I could exclaim with Propertius. "Nunc mihi summa licet sidera contingere plantis." And that exalted strain, which was my perdition, alas, was hers also! That which followed was a very hot still night, with thunder in the Euganean hills; and Aurelia may have been lax or languid, or in my miserable person some of the summer's fire may have throbbed.
And to begin with one end, there are Ovid, Virgil, Ennius, Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius, and Homer; the last-named, blind and chanting his verses with uplifted head, having at his feet one who is writing them down. Next, in a group, are all the nine Muses and Apollo, with such beauty in their aspect, and such divinity in the figures, that they breathe out a spirit of grace and life.
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