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We also challenge the supremacy of the Greeks in
elegy. Of our elegiac poets Tibullus seems to me
to be the most terse and elegant. There are, however, some who prefer Propertius. Ovid is more
sportive than either, while Gallus1 is more severe.
Satire, on the other hand, is all our own. The first
of our poets to win renown in this connexion was
Lucilius, some of whose devotees are so enthusiastic
that they do not hesitate to prefer him not merely
to all other satirists, but even to all other poets.
I disagree with them as much as I do with Horace,2
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