4/28: rediscovering a poem

In graduate school I did my "special field" exam on the poets Propertius and Tibullus. I've had little occasion to return to either of them since then, but today I was paging through a Latin text and a poem by Propertius caught my eye. I had read all of his poems when preparing for my exam (14 years ago), but I didn't remember this one: a drunk Propertius is wandering through the streets of Rome at night when he is accosted by a mob of tiny Cupids. It's a really fun and funny poem, and I was so glad to find it today. (And how could I ever have forgotten it?)

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