THE ELEGIES OF TIBULLUS
Theodore Chickering Williams translation
BEING THE CONSOLATIONS OF A ROMAN LOVER DONE IN ENGLISH VERSE
BY THEODORE C. WILLIAMS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY (The Riverside Press Cambridge) 1908
TO WILLIAM COE COLLAR
HEAD MASTER OF THE
ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL
Our old master ever young to his old boys:
Did Mentor with his mantle thee invest, Or Chiron lend thee his persuasive lyre, Or Socrates, of pedagogues the best, Teach thee the harp-strings of a youth's desire?