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Tibullus (Albius Tibullus) (tĭbŭl`əs), c.55? B.C.–19 B.C., Roman elegiac poet, b. Pedum, near Praeneste. Probably of the equestrian order, he was a friend of Messala, whom he accompanied on campaign. A master of the Latin love elegy, Tibullus wrote two books of verse (concerned, respectively, with "Delia" and "Nemesis"—names symbolic of his loves) that were published during his lifetime; some doubtfully attributed posthumous pieces plus works by other poets constitute a third book. |
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The late first century BCE Latin poet Tibullus links Hecate and her dogs with magical herbs, particularly those herbs gathered at gravesites (ELEGIES, 1. [2] Even Ronsard's choice of verse form -- an imitation of the distichs Ovid employed in his elegy on the death of Tibullus -- turns against lyric, flattening the crossed rhymes of a sonnet, ode, or chanson into ponderous couplets suggesting the heavy progress of a funeral train. Weyer contends that "Later poetic writing on the subject of Lamiae are for the most part empty fictions and pure fables -- or rather lies" -- but when his "evidence" includes Virgil, Aeneid 4, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7, Horace, Epode 5, and Tibullus, book 1, Elegy 2, he ends by perpetuating the fictions he deplores. |
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