Persians, Prop. 3, 11, 21

Polyphemus, Prop. 3, 2, 7

personal pronouns, liberal use of, in Tib., polysyllabic endings in the hexameter,

Tib. 1, 1, 5

Perusina. . . sepulcra, Prop. 1, 22, 3
Petronius in Ethiopia, Prop. 4, 6, 78
Phaeacia, Tib. 1, 3, 3
Phanocles, p. 19

Pharos, Tib. 1, 3, 32; Prop. 3, 7, 5

Pheneus, Cat. 68, 109

Phidias, Prop. 3, 9, 15

p. 63

Polyxena, Prop. 2, 13, 38

Pomona, Tib. 1, 1, 14

Pompey, Prop. 3, 11, 35, 38 and 68
pomum = pomus, Tib. I, I, 8

Ponticus, pp. 45, 55; Prop. 1, 7, 1; Ovid,
Trist. 4, 10, 47

popae, garments of the, Prop. 4, 3, 62

Philetas, p. 19; Prop. 3, 1, 1; 3, 9, 44; Porcius Latro, p. 55

4, 6, 3

Porcius Licinus, p. 22

Porticus Octaviae, Prop. 3, 18, 14
Poseidippus, p. 20

postilla, Cat. 84, 9

post modo, original meaning of, Tib. 2, 5,

102

pote, Prop. 3, 7, 10

potis est, Cat. 72, 7

praetexta of childhood, Prop. 4, 11, 33
Praxiteles, Prop. 3, 9, 16
precor with inf., Tib. 2, 5, 3

Priam, Prop. 2, 28, 54

Priapea by Tibullus (?), p. 38

Priapus, Tib. 1, 1, 17 sq.

Procne, Cat. 65, 14

Prometheus, Prop. 1, 12, 10; 3, 5, 7 sq.;

Ovid, Am. 2, 16, 40

propempticon, Ovid, Am. 2, 11, Intr.

Pierides, Tib. 4, 2, 21; Ovid, Am. 1, 1, 6 proper names, short forms of, Prop. 3, 3,

Pindus, Prop. 3, 5, 33

Piraeus, Prop. 3, 21, 23 sq.

Pirithous, Ovid, Trist. 1, 3, 66
Pisa, Ovid, Trist. 4, 10, 95
"pitcher kiss," Tib. 2, 5, 92
Pitys, Prop. 1, 18, 20
planetarium, Prop. 4, 1, 76
Plato, p. 18; Prop. 3, 21, 25
Pleiades, Prop. 1, 8, 10; 3, 5, 36
Pliny as an elegist, pp. 18, 22
plow, Tib. 2, 1, 6

invention of, Tib. 1, 7, 29
pluperfect for imperfect, Prop. 2, 13, 38
Pluto, Prop. 2, 28, 47; 4, 11, 5 and 18
poetic geography, Cat. 66, 36

poetic plural, Tib. 1, 3, 13

Pollio, Asinius, p. 24

Pollux, Cat. 68, 65

Polydamas, Prop. 3, 1, 29

Polygnotus, Prop. 4, 3, 21
Polynices, Prop. 1, 7, 2

7

Propertius, p. 43 sqq.; Prop. 1, 22; 3, 3,

17; Ovid, Trist. 4, 10, 45
abruptness in, Prop. 3, 7, 1 and 43
adulation in, Prop. 3, 9, 55

birth and early life, p. 43 sq.
character, p. 49

chronology of the poems, p. 49
connected elegies in, Prop. 3, 5, Intr.
debt to Callimachus, p. 20

division of the elegies into books, p.
48

editions, p. 54

estrangement for a year from Cynthia,

Prop. 3, 16, 9
friends, p. 45

Horace and, p. 45

Maecenas and, p. 45

manuscripts of, p. 52

spontaneous sympathy in, Prop. 3, 7,
Intr.

style of, pp. 50-52

theism in, Prop. 3, 5, 26

prosody, p. 67

protasis of actuality, Prop. 4, I, 49
Protesilaus, Cat. 68, 74; Prop. 1, 19, 7;
Ovid, Am. 2, 6, 41; Her. 13, Intr.

et passim

pseudonyms of the mistresses of the
elegists, p. 26, n. 2

Ptolemy II, p. 19

Ptolemy Euergetes, Cat. 66, Intr.

pulvis Etrusca, Prop. 1, 22,
puriter, Cat. 76, 19

Pylades, Ovid, Am. 2, 6, 15

Pyrrhus, Prop. 3, 11, 60

Python, Prop. 4, 6, 35

Q

quaene, Cat. 68, 91

6

quamvis with indicative, Prop. 1, 18, 13
quando, Prop. 2, 10, 8

R

Rea Silvia, Tib. 2, 5, 52

recitationes, introduction of, Ovid, Trist.
4, IO, 57

religious conservatism, Tib. 1, 1, 38
Remus, Tib. 2, 5, 24; Prop. 3, 9, 50; 4,
1, 9 and 50

Remus for Romulus, Prop. 4, 6, 80
repetitions in Tibullus, Tib. I, 1, 43
Rhadamanthus, Prop. 4, 11, 21
Rhine, Prop. 3, 3, 45

Rhoeteum, Cat. 65, 7; 101, Intr.
rhombus, Prop. 2, 28, 35

rime, Prop. 1, 8b, 34

in hexameter, pp. 63-65

middle, in hexameter, Prop. 3, 7, I
rivers of Tartarus, Tib. 1, 3, 68
Roma, Tib. 2, 5, 57

Romanus Callimachus, Prop. 4, 1, 64
Romula - Romana, Prop. 3, 11, 52; 4,
4, 26

quantity, before mute and liquid, Tib. 1, Romulus, Tib. 2, 5, 23
3, 18

long in compounds of eo, Ovid, Her. 13,

29

and Remus, bronze group, Prop. 3, 9,

51

taking augury, Prop. 4, 6, 43 sq.

shortening of final ō, Tib. 2, 6, 41; rustic divinities, Tib. I, I, II

terque quaterque, Tib. 1, 10, 63
-que, favorite position of, Tib. 2, 5, 72;

Ovid, Trist. 4, 10, 94

rustic festivals, Tib. 2, 1, Intr.
Rutuli, Tib. 2, 5, 47

S

-que before dissyllabic pentameter ending, Sabina (herba), Prop. 4, 3, 58

Tib. I, 1, 40

-que. et, Tib. 1, 1, 35

Sabine women, Prop. 4, 4, 59

sacrificial forms, Prop. 4, 6, 5 sqq.

questions, exclamatory, Ovid, Am. 3, 9, sacrificial vessels, Tib. 1, 1, 38

Quintilian, his estimate of Roman elegy, Saturni diem, Tib. 1, 3, 18

Scylla, Prop. 2, 26, 53; Ovid, Am. 2, 16, spondees in hexameter, p. 63

Sibylline books, Tib. 2, 5, Intr.; Prop. syncopated perfects, Prop. 1, 7, 5

Simois, Prop. 3, 1, 27; Ovid, Am. 1, 15, Syphax, Prop. 3, 11, 59

Sirius, Tib. 1, 1, 27; 1, 7, 21; 2, 1, 47; Tacitus, his estimate of elegy, p. 24

Theocritus, pp. 19, 20; Prop. 2, 12, 17; 3 topography, vague, Prop. 4, 4, 15

Theseus, Prop. 4, 4, 41; Ovid, Trist. 1, 3, | Triton, Prop. 4, 6, 61; Ovid, Am. 2, II,

Thetis, Prop. 3, 7, 68; Ovid, Am. 2, 17, triumphs of Romulus, Prop. 4, 1, 32

characteristic course of thought, Tib. turpentine wood, Prop. 3, 7, 49

Varro Atacinus, pp. 22, 28; Ovid, Am. wax likenesses, Ovid, Her. 13, 152

Venus, Tib. 1, 1, 73; 4, 2, 3; 4, 13, 23; wine-making, Tib. 1, 1, 10; 2, 5, 85