Propertianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Propertian (comparative more Propertian, superlative most Propertian)

1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of the Latin elegiac poet Sextus Propertius (c. 50–45 BC – c. 15 BC).
   • 1846 April, “Art[icle] IV.—1. An Inquiry concerning the Origin of Christianity. By Charles C. Hennell. […]”, in The Christian Remembrancer. A Quarterly Review., volume XI, number LII, London: James Burns, […], page 368:

     The Propertian age must be revived in New Jersey: and whatever slights transatlantic literature may receive from the malice and prejudice of Europe, such will be dispelled by the approving criticism of the lady graduates of St. Mary’s Hall.

   • 1876, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, “Atakta”, in Hermathena, a Series of Papers on Literature, Science, and Philosophy, by Members of Trinity College, Dublin, volume II, Dublin: Edward Ponsonby, […]. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., […], page 122:

     Fluctus nimium audent pati = fluctus nimium audent (ausi) pati is very Propertian (cf., for instance, iv. 19, 23), as also, is the absolute use of the ablative in remis Latinis.

   • 1964, J[ohn] P[atrick] Sullivan, Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius: A Study in Creative Translation, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →LCCN, page 57:

     It is as though at this time Pound felt a lack of interest in the central subject of Propertian poetry (the Cantos make it clear it is not from any inability to deal with such themes that this is so).

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