Thank you, Aaron, I enjoyed this Propertius more than I usually enjoy Propertius (which is to say, in English alone). There's a lot of fun stuff happening, as you make clear.
I always feel that Latin lyric poets - say, Propertius - also have Greek constantly before them, in tropes, in music, everywhere, which simply can't be rendered into another and modern language. For instance, I remember scanning a bit of Propertius and learning from my Latin teacher that Ariadnen had a long i due to the Greek. Easy to know, but also music.
I like the boys with spears instead of arrows.
Cheers,
John
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