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Aaron Poochigian Aaron Poochigian is offline
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In Poem 1.19, Propertius claims that he fears not death but separation from Cynthia at death. Yes, his clinginess is so intense that he projects it beyond the grave. He consoles himself with the thought that “a great love pierces even the shores of death.”

Non ego nunc tristis vereor, mea Cynthia, Manis,

I no longer fear, my darling Cynthia, the sad shades of the Underworld;

nec moror extremo debita fata rogo;

I no longer try to delay the fate-payment owed to the pyre at the end of life.

sed ne forte tuo careat mihi funus amore,

I only fear that my burial might possibly be without your love.

hic timor est ipsis durior exsequiis.

This fear is harder than the thought of the funeral itself.

non adeo leviter nostris puer haesit ocellis,

The boy (the Love-god) has not clung so lightly to my eyes

ut meus oblito pulvis amore vacet.

that my ashes might lie there empty, with our love forgotten by them.

(Yes, Propertius imagines a ghost returning to try to grope its former wife.)


illic Phylacides iucundae coniugis heros

There in the blind regions (in the Underworld) (the ghost of) the hero

Protesilaus (the first hero to die at Troy)

non potuit caecis immemor esse locis,

could not be forgetful of his delightful wife,

sed cupidus falsis attingere gaudia palmis

but, covetous to grope his (former) delights with insubstantial hands,

Thessalus antiquam venerat umbra domum.

he returned as a shade to his old home in Thrace.

(Yes, Propertius imagines a ghost returning to its former home to grope its former wife. Ghost sex=hot.)


illic quidquid ero, semper tua dicar imago:

There (in the Underworld) whatever I will be, I will be called “Cynthia’s ghost.”

traicit et fati litora magnus amor.

A great love crosses even the shores of death.
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