id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-998 Propertius - Wikipedia .html text/html 3853 534 60 The 19th century classics scholar Karl Lachmann argued, based on the unusually large number of poems in this book and Propertius' mention of tres libelli,[14] that the single Book II actually comprises two separate books of poetry conflated in the manuscript tradition, an idea supported by the state of the manuscript tradition of "Book II." An editor of Propertius, Paul Fedeli, accepts this hypothesis, as does G.P. Goold, editor of the Loeb edition. The publication of a third book came sometime after 23 BC.[15] Its content shows the poet beginning to move beyond simple love themes, as some poems (e.g. III.5) use Amor merely as a starting point for other topics. Poems Sextus Propertius, edited by Patrick Worsnip. Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: Propertius The Elegies of Propertius at The Latin Library ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-998.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-998.txt