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Propertian, a.|prɒˈpɜːʃ(ɪ)ən|
[f. L. Propertius (see below) + -an.]
Belonging to or characteristic of Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Latin elegiac poet of the first century b.c., or his poetry.
1871J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 217 Goethe, who was classic..in his ‘Hermann and Dorothea’, and at least Propertian in his ‘Roman Idyls’, wasted his time..on the mechanical mock-antique of an unreadable ‘Achilleis’. 1918E. Pound Let. 22 Nov. in Lett. J. Joyce (1966) II. 424, I hope my Propertian ravings will amuse you. 1930W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale xiv. 161 Love lyrics and elegies in the Propertian manner. 1974Classical Q. XXIV. 96 The verb of the first clause is rendered in English by the pluperfect. The Propertian passage displays a structural similarity. |