In this second selection of poems on a theme, love is not going so smoothly. Dido is being consumed by a passion for Aeneas which as yet is unrequited:
Propertius is obsessed by Cynthia, but she only seems to make him unhappy:
Catullus was so blissfully happy with Lesbia, but his luck has changed:
Propertius is still camped on his lady’s doorstep, and her door doesn’t seem to care:
the lover’s complaint to the door
But doesn’t Horace say that he is glad that it is over with Pyrrha? Yes, but you can see that he still misses her:
Even in Hades when human life is past, Dido harbours a grudge:
Aeneas finds Dido among the shades
Propertius again – he says he’s invincible, but it doesn’t sound much fun to be
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