Tibullus | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 27 pages of analysis & critique of Tibullus.

Tibullus | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 27 pages of analysis & critique of Tibullus.
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SOURCE: "Horace and Tibullus," The American Journal of Philology, Vol. XXXIII, 1912, pp. 149-67.

In the following essay, Ullman analyzes two poems written by Horace to Albius and discusses the arguments against and for identifying Albius as Tibullus.

I. Carm. I. 33 and Epist. I. 4.

Albi, ne doleas plus nimio memor
immitis Glycerae, neu miserabiles
decantes elegos, cur tibi iunior
   laesa praeniteat fide.
Albi, nostrorum sermonum candide iudex,
quid nunc te dicam facere in regione Pedana?
Scribere quod Cassi Parmensis opuscula
 vincat,
An tacitum silvas inter reptare salubris,
curantem quicquid dignum sapiente bonoque
 est?
Non tu corpus eras sine pectore: di tibi
 formam,
di tibi divitias dederunt artemque fruendi.
Quid voveat dulci nutricula maius alumno,
qui sapere et fari possit quae sentiat, et cui
gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde,
et mundus victus non deficiente crumena?
Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras
omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum:
grata superveniet...

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