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A Poetical Translation of the elegies of Tibullus

and of the poems of Sulpicia. With The Original Text, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. In two volumes. By James Grainger
Granger, James (1723-1776)
  
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[VOL. I.]
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VOL. II.
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TIBULLUS. BOOK THE SECOND.
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TIBULLUS. BOOK THE THIRD.
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SULPICIA's POEMS.
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POEM THE FIRST.
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THE SECOND POEM.
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THE THIRD POEM.
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THE FOURTH POEM.
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THE FIFTH POEM.
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THE SIXTH POEM.
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THE SEVENTH POEM.
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THE EIGHTH POEM.
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THE NINTH POEM.
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THE TENTH POEM.
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THE ELEVENTH POEM.
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THE TWELFTH POEM.

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THE NINTH POEM.

[That I, descended of Patrician Race]

That I, descended of Patrician Race,
With Charms of Fortune, and with Charms of Face,
Am so indifferent grown to you of late,
So little car'd for, now excites no Hate.
Rare Taste, and worthy of a Poet's Brain,
To prey on Garbage, and a Slave adore!
In such to find out Charms, a Bard must feign
Beyond what Fiction ever feign'd of Yore.
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Her Friends may think Sulpicia is disgrac'd;
No! no! she honours your transcendent Taste.
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