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		<title>Propertius -- Elegies, Book 3, Elegy  2, l.  25ff (3.2.25–26) [tr. Goold (Loeb) (1990)]</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But the fame my genius has won shall not perish with time: genius claims a glory that knows no death.</p>
<p><em>[At non ingenio quaestium nomen ab aevo<br />
<span class="tab">Excidet: ingenio stat sine morte decus.]</span></em></p>
<br><b>Propertius</b> (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]<br><i>Elegies</i>, Book 3, Elegy  2, l.  25ff (3.2.25–26) [tr. Goold (Loeb) (1990)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/elegiespropertiu0000prop/page/226/mode/2up?q=%22fame+my+genius%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Telling Cynthia his literary genius will provide a more lasting memorial to her beauty than mere material monuments.<br><br>

Because of the (ironic) corruption of the manuscripts of Propertius and speculating from internal references, some 19th Century scholars (e.g., <a href="https://archive.org/details/LoebClassicalLibraryL018/page/n17/mode/2up 
">Lachmann</a>) argued for a different division of the elegies into books, thus the translations noted which instead label this as Book 4, Elegy 2.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/prop3.html#:~:text=at%20non%20ingenio%20quaesitum%20nomen%20ab%20aevo%0A%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0excidet%3A%20ingenio%20stat%20sine%20morte%20decus.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations: <br><br>

<blockquote>But glory shrined in song can never die,<br>
Talent alone wins immortality.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_elegies_of_Propertius_tr_into_Engl_v/3GQCAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22glory%20shrined%22">Moore</a> (1870), 4.2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Genius alone a name can deathless render,<br>
<span class="tab">And round the forehead wreathe the unfading crown.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044010369999&seq=384&q1=%22genius+alone%22">Cranstoun</a> (1875), 4.2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But a name gained by genius will never perish by time: the honours of genius are deathless.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/elegies00prop/page/76/mode/2up?q=%22name+gained%22">Gantillon</a> (1884), 4.2] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>[...] The honour accorded to genius is immortal. <br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_Quotations_from_Ancient_an/V-4-AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22accorded%20to%20genius%20is%20immortal%22&pg=PA194&printsec=frontcover">E.g.</a> (1892)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But that renown which poet's wit purchases, shall not so pass out of mind by the effect of time; poet's wit has such a pride as stands deathless.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t83j3gr9k&seq=110&q1=%22poet%27s+wit+purchases%22">Phillimore</a> (1906)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The name by genius earned dies not with time;<br>
The lustre shed by genius knows no death.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_Quotations_classical/2rSZy0yVFm8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22name%20by%20genius%22">Harbottle</a> (1906), 4.1]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But the fame that my wit hath won shall never perish: for wit renown endureth deathless.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/LoebClassicalLibraryL018/page/n203/mode/2up?q=%22but+the+fame%22">Butler</a> (Loeb) (1912)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>[...] Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://archive.org/details/newdictionaryofq0000hlme/page/382/mode/2up?q=%22Fame+due+to+the+achievements+of+the+mind+never+perishes.%22">Mencken</a> (1942)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But from remembered genius, fame shall flower.<br>
It is only wit that death does not devour.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/poemsofpropertiu0000unse_a4j4/page/116/mode/2up?q=%22remembered+genius%22">Carrier</a> (1963)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But a writer’s talent wins fame that will not perish: <br>
The honour accorded such talent stands<br>
Beyond death’s power.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/propertius-elegies-musker.txt/page/130/mode/2up?q=%22writer%27s+talent%22">Musker</a> (1972)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But age will not destroy the name achieved by talent;<br>
<span class="tab">Talent's glory stands -- immortal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/poems0000prop_b2d5/page/74/mode/2up?q=%22achieved+by+talent%22">Lee</a> (1992)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But the name I’ve earned, with my wit, will not be razed by time: Mind stands firm, a deathless ornament.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PropertiusBkThree.php#anchor_Toc201112456:~:text=But%20the%20name%20I%E2%80%99ve%20earned%2C%20with%20my%20wit%2C%20will%20not%20be%20razed%20by%20time%3A%20Mind%20stands%20firm%2C%20a%20deathless%20ornament.">Kline</a> (2001)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But a name acquired by genius will never fade<br>
<span class="tab">but stand a deathless ornament.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.ocasopress.com/pdf/sextus_propertius_elegies_translation.pdf#page=205">Holcombe</a> (2009)]</blockquote>
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