Robert Maltby, Tibullus: Elegies. Text, Introduction and Commentary. ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 41. Cambridge: Francis Cairns (Publications), 2002. Pp. xii, 529. ISBN 0-905205-99-5. $135.00.
In this week's lesson, we started translating Tibullus' opening elegy from his first collection. It starts, surprisingly, with the word "divitias", "riches", but this is swiftly followed by "alius", showing that the persona of the poem is distancing himself from these riches. He goes on to say that someone else can "heap up" gold and…