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PRONUNCIATION OF PROPERTIUS

Propertius  [prəˈpɜːʃɪəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROPERTIUS

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Propertius is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PROPERTIUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Propertius

Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of Elegies. He was a friend of the poets Gallus and Virgil and, with them, had as his patron Maecenas and, through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus.

Definition of Propertius in the English dictionary

The definition of Propertius in the dictionary is Sextus. ?50–?15 bc, Roman elegiac poet.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROPERTIUS


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Aquarius
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croceous
ˈkrəʊʃɪəs
curious
ˈkjʊərɪəs
galimatias
ˌɡælɪˈmeɪʃɪəs
genius
ˈdʒiːnɪəs
hilarious
hɪˈlɛərɪəs
Ignatius
ɪɡˈneɪʃɪəs
Lucretius
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Manutius
məˈnjuːʃɪəs
meliaceous
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Mencius
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menthaceous
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miscellaneous
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obvious
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prescious
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previous
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serious
ˈsɪərɪəs
Statius
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various
ˈvɛərɪəs

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROPERTIUS

Aldus Manutius
Antonius
Celsius
Claudius
Comenius
Confucius
gladius
Grotius
ignotum per ignotius
Marius
Mauritius
Prudentius
radius
Sagittarius
sestertius
Sibelius
Sirius
Stradivarius
tertius
Vilnius

Synonyms and antonyms of Propertius in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Propertius
1,325 millions of speakers

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Propercio
570 millions of speakers

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Propertius
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Propertius
380 millions of speakers
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Propertius
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Проперций
278 millions of speakers

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Propertius
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Propertius
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Properce
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Propertius
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Properz
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プロペルティウス
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Propertius
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Propertius
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Propertius
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Propertius
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कंन्सिओस
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Propertius
70 millions of speakers

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Properzio
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Propertius
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Проперций
40 millions of speakers

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Propertius
30 millions of speakers
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Προπέρτιος
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Propertius
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Propertius
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Propertius
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROPERTIUS»

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Propertius: A Critical Introduction
Professor Sullivan proposes what was, at the time of publication, a new view on Propertius' poetic development and his place in the social political and literary circles of the day.
J. P. Sullivan, 2010
2
Propertius: Elegies
Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. A wide range of literary, inscriptional and archaeological material is used to illuminate this many-sided poetry. The edition should be valuable to both students and scholars.
Propertius, Gregory Hutchinson, 2006
3
Propertius: Modernist Poet of Antiquity
An examination of Propertius in light of nonclassical, modernist literary techniques, especially internal monologue or stream of consciousness and imagism.
D. Thomas Benediktson, 1989
4
Propertius: poet of love and leisure
This volume explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society
Alison Keith, 2008
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A Commentary on Propertius
An edition of the most wide-ranging and entertaining of the books of the Latin love poet Propertius.
Sextus Propertius, 2010
6
Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist
Study of Propertius' four books of elegies investigating their sources and motives.
Francis Cairns, 2006
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Elegies, I-IV
In this authoritative edition of Propertius’s elegies, L. Richardson, jr, makes these challenging poems both intelligible and accessible.
Sextus Propertius, Lawrence Richardson, 2006
8
Propertius
For ancient critics, in contrast with the modern, read him as polished, elegant and amusing. This book presents a Propertius along these latter lines.
Margaret Hubbard, 1974
9
Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death
This book offers a detailed reading of some of the most stimulating and problematic of Propertius' elegies.
Theodore D. Papanghelis, 1987
10
The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
"--Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown University "This work is a consummate labor of love, which has managed to translate the ageless sophistication of the Roman poet Propertius (50 to 16 BC) into the distracted dissonance of our own perilous ...
Sextus Propertius, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROPERTIUS»

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Pluto, We Love You. Sorry We Banished You From Our Orbit
It was the Roman poet Sextus Propertius who said: "always towards absent lovers, love's tide stronger flows." We see now the prescience of ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
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LC Classical Studies / Latin: Examiners are urged to show a little …
... Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland - thought the Propertius ... all of Propertius' work, but students only study a small number of his ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
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Were some dreams in ancient Roman poetry the precursor to film?
But a University of Kansas researcher in her new book argues that the authors of elegiac poetry in ancient Rome — Propertius, Tibullus and ... «KU Today, Jun 15»
4
In Writing News: Hemingway Punches Poet in the Face, Obama …
I wonder if ancient Roman reviewers could get away with saying, “In his latest novel, Propertius shows us what it's like to come of age in the ... «TheStranger.com, May 15»
5
I Got It Bad
... develop: The Renaissance love song doesn't happen without the examples of Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid returning to cultural awareness. «The Weekly Standard, May 15»
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Crush Emails From the Great Celebrity Experimental Writer of the '90s
She notoriously, brazenly plagiarized and reworked texts both classic (Cervantes, Propertius, Dickens, Faulkner) and exotic (Bataille, Harold ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
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The Paris Review Hosts Spring Revel
Weld said, “I was writing my thesis about Propertius, who was an obscure elegiac poet from the first century B.C. but I wrote the thesis in three ... «WWD, Apr 15»
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The environmental genomics of metazoan thermal adaptation
(2010). Population-level transcriptome sequencing of nonmodel organisms Erynnis propertius and Papilio zelicaon. BMC Genomics 11: 310. «Nature.com, Mar 15»
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Love and Other Crimes
... came under the patronage of one Messalla, who cultivated a circle that included the lyric poets Tibullus and Propertius. Despite the call of the ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
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Classical Literature by Richard Jenkyns, review: 'a parade of value …
The abusive poet Archilochus is "Europe's first pain in the neck"; the lyric poet Alcman "first associated sex with death"; Propertius, "the first ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»

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