Editing Propertius (section)

{{Short description|1st-century BC Roman elegiac poet}}
{{about-otherpeople|the Latin elegiac poet|Propertius|Propertia gens}}
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[[File:Prop and Cynth.jpg|thumb|[[Auguste Vinchon]], ''Propertius and Cynthia at Tivoli'']]

'''Sextus Propertius''' was a [[Latin]] [[elegy|elegiac]] poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium (now [[Assisi]]) and died shortly after 15 BC.<ref>[[John Lemprière]]'s ''Classical Dictionary''</ref> 

Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of ''[[elegy#History|Elegies]]'' (''{{lang|la|Elegiae}}''). He was a friend of the poets [[Cornelius Gallus|Gallus]] and [[Virgil]] and, with them, had as his patron [[Maecenas]] and, through Maecenas, the emperor [[Augustus]]. Although Propertius was not as renowned in his own time as other Latin elegists,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UarCAQAAQBAJ|title=The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy|page=97|last=Thorsen|first=Thea S.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2013|isbn=978-0521765367}}</ref> he is today regarded by scholars as a major poet.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZSzCwAAQBAJ&q=major+poet|title=Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism|last=Tarrant|first=Richard|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2016|isbn=978-1316538807}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1bz5wAPk1HsC|title=Ancient Greek Epigrams: Major Poets in Verse Translation|page=119|last=Fain|first=Gordon L.|publisher=University of California Press|date=2010|isbn=978-0520265790}}</ref>