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Albius Tibullus
Tibullus
also: Tibullus
Albius Tibullus (c. 55–19 BC), Roman elegiac poet celebrated for tender love-poetry; his epigraph on love as a consecrating guide opens Madách's 'Uncrowned Laureate' poem.
Reading notes
- First Attempts (Juvenilia) §41 Tibullus
Albius Tibullus (c. 55–19 BC), Roman elegiac poet celebrated for tender love poetry; his epigraph on love as a guide to safe and sacred paths positions the 'Uncrowned Laureate' poem within the classical elegiac tradition.