Propertius Quotes

Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.

Quicumque ille fuit, puerum qui pinxit Amorem
nonne putas miras hunc habuisse manus?
is primum vidit sine sensu vivere amantes

Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.

Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.

Whoever he was who first depicted Amor as a boy, don’t you think it was a wonderful touch? He was the first to see that lovers live without sense.

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

Unus quisque sua noverit ire via.

Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai!
Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade.

Neque assueto mutet amore torum.

Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.

Nudus Amor formam non amat artificem.

Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit,
Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.

Aut patrio qualis ponit vestigia ponto
Mille Venus teneris cincta Cupidinibus.

Errat, qui finem vesani quaerit amoris:
verus amor nullum novit habere modum

Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks! Something greater than the Iliad is born.