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Updated: May 14, 2025
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.
You know it is a very dismal omen, an inauspicious sign, unlucky indice, and token formidable, bad, disastrous, and most unhappy, as is certified by Propertius, Tibullus, the quick philosopher Porphyrius, Eustathius on the Iliads of Homer, and by many others. Verily, verily, quoth Panurge, brave are the allegations which you bring me, and testimonies of two-footed calves.
The nicety of these minute allusions I shall exemplify by another instance, which I take this occasion to mention, because, as I am told, the commentators have omitted it. Tibullus addressed Cynthia in this manner: Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora, Te teneam moriens deficiente manu. Lib. i. El. i. 73. Before my closing eyes dear Cynthia stand, Held weakly by my fainting trembling hand.
To this species of poetry Tibullus restricted his application, by which he cultivated that simplicity and tenderness, and agreeable ease of sentiment, which constitute the characteristic perfections of the elegiac muse. In the description of rural scenes, the peaceful occupations of the field, the charms of domestic happiness, and the joys of reciprocal love, scarcely any poet surpasses Tibullus.
This latter temple is supposed, from a bas-relief found in it, representing the Sibyl sitting in the act of delivering an oracle, to be the ancient shrine of the Sibyl Albunea mentioned by Horace, Tibullus, and Lactantius. The earliest bronze statues at Rome were those of the three Sibyls, placed near the Rostra, in the middle of the Forum.
He liked Virgil; commended the style of Tibullus; did not care for Propertius; but expressed high approbation of Catullus and Horace. I suspect his favourite to have been Ovid. His son says he did not study much, nor look after books; but this may have been in his decline, or when Virginio first took to observing him.
And in my love of Nature more confiding and constant than ever is the love we bear to women I cry with the tender and sweet Tibullus, "'Ego composito securus acervo Despiciam dites, despiciamque famem."* * "Satisfied with my little hoard, I can despise wealth, and fear not hunger."
YOU shall be Horace, and Tibullus I. POPE. LORD VARGRAVE was disturbed from his revery by the entrance of the Earl of Saxingham. "You are welcome!" said Lumley, "welcome! the very man I wished to see."
We know not the age of Tibullus at the time of his death; but in an elegy written by Ovid upon that occasion, he is spoken of as a young man. Were it true, as is said by biographers, that he was born the same day with Ovid, we must indeed assign the event to an early period: for Ovid cannot have written the elegy after the forty-third year of his own life, and how long before is uncertain.
After all this vexed public life of toil and care and ambition, to see Trevanion and Ellinor drawing closer and closer to each other, knowing private life and its charms for the first time, verily, it would have been a theme for an elegiast like Tibullus. But all this while a younger love, with no blurred leaves to erase from the chronicle, has been keeping sweet account of the summer time.
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