Abstract
In the last issue of Greece & Rome there appeared two critical analyses of Propertius iii. 10, an elegy written in celebration of Cynthia's birthday. Here I propose to enlarge on some of the points made by my predecessors, and publish my own reactions to reading the poem. I agree with Dr. Lyne and Mr. Morwood in detecting an underlying urgency in the piece: they notice marks of anxiety and preoccupation with passing time, along with a conflation of the concepts of sleep and death. But neither writer asks what I believe to be the necessary first question: what kind of poem is Propertius iii. 10? Formal considerations—classification according to literary genus—do in fact warrant some of their contentions, but leave others in need of modification.
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