Non Tamen Insector: Your Muse No More (Propertius 4.7.49–50)

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This note on Propertius 4.7 argues that Cynthia, repeatedly cast in the role of the poet's Muse, rejects the burden of inspiration through a learned choice of words (non tamen insector, 4.7.49). The verb insector constitutes a clear reference to the invocation of the Camena in Livius Andronicus and of the Muse in Ennius. Cynthia recalibrates the parlance of poetic inspiration to end her relationship with Propertius, both as his puella and as his Muse.

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Propertius, Elegies, Book IV.J. P. Sullivan, W. A. Camps & Paoli Fedeli - 1967 - American Journal of Philology 88 (2):224.

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