Note 44 — Women in Greek Poetry
Reading edition
It is as a philosopher that Horace (Ep. i. 6, 65) cites his opinion:
si, Mimnermus uti censet, sine amore iocisque nil est iucundum;
“censet,” the regular word for a philosopher. It is further worth noticing that the Roman poets, when they mention Mimnermus, speak of him as the inventor of the elegiac metre, not as an erotic poet. Cp. e.g. Prop. i. 9, 11.