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first edition of Propertius was published in 1487 (ed. Beroaldus). Baehrens (Leipzig, 1880) was the first to put the text on a scientific basis. His text is much marred by arbitrary and tasteless conjectures, but the preface is important. Since then texts have been edited by Palmer (London, 1880), Postgate (in Corpus Poetarum Latinorum, London, 1894), Phillimore (Oxford, 1901, and Riccardi Press. London, 1911), Hosius (Teubner Series, 1912). Of these Postgate's text alone is other than conservative in tendency. The only modern commentaries are by Rothstein (Berlin, 1898) and Butler (London, 1905). Of the older commentaries those of Passerat (Paris, 16O8), Lachmann (Leipzig, 1816, and Berlin, 1829), and Hertzberg (Halle, 1843–45) will on the whole be found most useful. There are also good editions of selected elegies by Postgate (London, 1881) and Ramsay (Oxford, 1900, 3rd ed.). The sixth edition of Haupt's recension (1904, Leipzig), revised by Vahlen, and accompanied by texts of Catullus and TibuIIus, is an elegant volume, which follows Lachmann's division into five books, and contains no apparatus criticus.

For literary estimates of Propertius the reader may go to Sellar, Roman Poetry under Augustus: Elegiac Poets (Oxford), and Ribbeck's well-known History of Roman Poetry. xv