So I will pass the night with drinking, so with song, until daylight shines its rays into my wine.
[Sic noctem patera, sic ducam carmine, donec
iniciat radios in mea uina dies!]
Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 4, Elegy 6, l. 85ff (4.6.85–86) [tr. Kline (2001)]
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Propertius - Elegies, Book 4, Elegy 6, l. 85ff (4.6.85–86) [tr. Kline (2001)] | WIST Quotations
So I will pass the night with drinking, so with song, until daylight shines its rays into my wine. Because of the corruption of the manuscripts of Propertius and speculating from internal references, some 19th Century scholars (e.g.WIST Quotations