Whoever he was who first depicted Amor as a boy, don’t you … - Propertius

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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.

Propertius

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Sextus Propertius (50 BC – 16 BC) was a Roman elegiac poet in Maecenas' circle.

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Alternative Names: Sextus Propertius • Sextus Aurelius Propertius

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Virgil Publius Papinius Statius Lucan Silius Italicus Catullus

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Unus quisque sua noverit ire via.

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.

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. - Propertius

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