Poems by Sextus Propertius

Author:Sextus Propertius [Propertius, Sextus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784106546
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2018-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

‘Guilty as charged, Propertius –

but I won’t hound you.

I ruled your books – you gave me a long run.

I swear by the Fates, whose thread can’t be unspun,

and so may Cerberus let me quietly past,

that I was loyal. May a snake twist round

my bones, hissing in my grave, if I lie.

‘The river of death has two destinations;

departed souls row one way or the other.

For Clytemnestra and Pasiphae (she

who built the monstrous wooden cow) the boat

goes hellwards; flower-decked craft take others

where the wind caresses Elysian roses,

where sweet-toned lutes, Cybele’s cymbals

and Eastern lyres of turbaned troupes keep time.

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