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Odyssean Echoes in Propertius IV. 81
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
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In iv. i. 64 Propertius calls himself a Roman Callimachus, and it is part of the Callimachean method to echo and mock epic style. There seems to be a good example of this in Book Four, which the commentators appear to have overlooked.
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page 53 note 1 See Camps, W. A. on that poem, Propertius: Elegies, Book IV (Cambridge, 1965), 115.Google Scholar
page 53 note 2 Though of course iv. 7 makes its bow to aetiology in the description of the cult at Lanuvium.
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