In one poem, this man asks who the first man to forge swords was, punning on ferus and ferreus to note how "wild" and "iron" such a man had to be.
In one poem, this man asks who the first man to forge swords was, punning on ferus and ferreus to note how "wild" and "iron" such a man had to be. Paul Allen Miller is among many scholars who ascribe a "dreamlike" quality to this man's couplets. Sleep and Dream come at the end of a poem by this man depicting the rustic Ambarvalia festival. In one poem, he demands that a rude girl named Pholoe be kind to his boy love-interest Marathus; in another, he asks Phoebus to bless a new priest of the Sibylline books. This man went to war in Aquitania with his patron (*) Messalla Corvinus. Six poems by Sulpicia, the only known female Latin poet, were appended to works by, and often attributed to, this man. The ninth poem in Book 3 of Ovid's Amores mourns the early death of, for 10 points, what man who died shortly after Virgil, whose two surviving books of elegies are addressed to Nemesis and Delia?
In one poem, this man asks who the first man to forge swords was, punning on ferus and ferreus to note how "wild" and "iron" such a man had to be.
Albius Tibullus 