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[German version] Name given by the anonymous author to the narrator of six love elegies transmitted in the Corpus Tibullianum (3,1-6; Tibullus), which seem rather amateurish in style as well as in their train of thought. The small cycle suggests a situation uncommon for Roman love elegy, that the wife of L., Neaera, turned to another man, whereupon L. reacts by wooing, hoping, lamenting, and finally resigning. It must remain open whether this story may be interpreted autobiographically (thus [4. 84]). In any case,…

[German version] [1] P., Sextus Elegiac poet, 1st cent. BC Roman elegiac poet. Neumeister, Christoff (Frankfurt/Main) [German version] I. Biography P. was born around the middle of the 1st cent. BC in the Umbrian town of Asisium (modern Assisi) (Lachmann inferred the name of his place of birth by conjecture from Prop. 4,1,125; it is confirmed by numerous inscriptions of the Propertii family found in the area). Notable events in his youth include the early death of his father (4,1,127 f.), the Perusine War (1,21 f.;…

(Praenomen unknown). The Roman elegiac poet Tibullus, 1st cent. BC. [German version] I. Biography Tibullus' date of birth can be only approximately deduced from the information in an epigram by Domitius [III 2] Marsus, according to which Tibullus accompanied the poet Virgil to the underworld as a iuvenis (Youth, Age(s)) (FPL 3 Fr. 7): between 60 and 50 BC. He came from a family of equites whose property had diminished (Tib. 1,1,19), perhaps owing to the expropriations of the years 41-40. Nevertheless, Horace [7] could still designate him as wealthy (Hor. Epi…