Sextus Propertius Quotes
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[N]eque assueto mutet amore torum.
Sextus Propertius— Never change when love has found its home.
— I, i, 36
Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.
Sextus Propertius— Translation: The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
— II, i, 43–4
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
Sextus Propertius— II, i, 46 (Elegies)
Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certeLaus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.
Sextus Propertius— Translation: What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
— Variant translation: Even if strength fail, boldness at least will deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have had the will is enough.
— II, x, 5
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius— Translation: Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
— II, xix, 32
Let each man have the wit to go his own way.
Sextus Propertius— II, xxv, 38 (Elegies)
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.
Sextus Propertius— Translation: Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
— II, xxxiii, 43
Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai!Nescioquid maius nascitur Iliade.
Sextus Propertius— Translation:Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks!Something greater than the Iliad is born.Of Virgil’s Aeneid
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.
Sextus Propertius— IV, vii, 1 (Elegies)
Magnum iter adscendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires.
Sextus Propertius— Sextus Propertius, Elegies, IV. 10. 3
Magnum iter adscendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires.
Sextus Propertius— Sextus Propertius, Elegies, IV. 10. 3
Ultima talis erit quæ mea prima fides.
Sextus Propertius— My last confidence will be like my first.
— Sextus Propertius, Elegiæ, II, 20, 34.
Ingenio stat sine morte decus.
Sextus Propertius— Sextus Propertius, Elegiæ, III. 2. 24
