Top 15 Propertius Quotes

Magnum iter ascendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires

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

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

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

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

Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.

Unus quisque sua noverit ire via.

Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.

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

Nemo in amore videt.

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.

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

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

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

Qua pote quisque, in ea conterat arte diem.