In one of this author's poems, the astrologer Horos warns him not to write about history since Apollo forbade him from "thundering" out words in the mad Forum.
In one of this author's poems, the astrologer Horos warns him not to write about history since Apollo forbade him from "thundering" out words in the mad Forum. An angry ghost returns to this author's bed and tells him "Others can have you . . . I alone / Hold: and I grind your manhood bone on bone" in a poem chastising him about his new mistress Chloris. Another of this author's poems tells a woman he is ashamed that his verses have made her famous. He wrote that he was "untouched by love" before a woman trapped him with her eyes in the opening lines of the Monobiblos, which brought his attention to his lifelong patron Maecenas. This Augustan poet also wrote the line "absence makes the heart grow fonder." For 10 points, name this Latin author of four books of love elegies to Cynthia, the subject of a "homage" by Ezra Pound.
In one of this author's poems, the astrologer Horos warns him not to write about history since Apollo forbade him from "thundering" out words in the mad Forum.
Sextus Propertius