“Except in one or two very minor matters, the accounts here given are accurate and sympathetic.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 143. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
“A very readable manual.”
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Williams, Theodore C. [Elegies of Tibullus.] $1.25. Badger, R. G.
The consolations of a Roman lover done into English verse. Twenty-four elegies of books I., II., III., and two short pieces of book IV., in the translation of which the author has “always been faithful to the thought and spirit of the original except in the few passages where euphemism was required.”
“A free but exquisite translation.”
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“Though it is in no sense a slavish rendering, it does present the substance of Tibullus with remarkable fidelity.”
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