Love
Book III, Elegy 15: The Journey Abandoned (Postgate)
Translated by J. P. Postgate (Loeb, 1913) · From Elegies (Loeb, 1913)
Dost thou know that the burden of that journey is lifted from thy girl's heart? Now she can be at Rome upon her birthday. Let us all, then, keep that day [with gladness], which comes to thee this time by unexpected chance.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Attributed to Sulpicia, from the Corpus Tibullianum; numbered III. 15 (IV. 9) in this volume.
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MLA
Tibullus (Albius Tibullus). “Book III, Elegy 15: The Journey Abandoned (Postgate).” Translated by J. P. Postgate. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tibullus/54/.
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Tibullus (Albius Tibullus). “Book III, Elegy 15: The Journey Abandoned (Postgate).” Translated by J. P. Postgate. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tibullus/54/.
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