mea lux: As a term of affection, this expression is fairly frequent in elegy, going back to Catullus (68.132, 68.160). At around the same time, Cicero uses it once in a letter to his wife, Fam. 14.2. Propertius has the phrase three times (2.14.29, 2.28.59, 2.29.1). Ovid uses it several times: Amores 1.4.25, 1.8.23, 2.17.23; Ars 3.523; Tristia 3.3.52. Later, Martial has it at 5.29.3. The phrase occurs one other time in the Tibullan corpus, at 3.9.15, in one of the poems of the "Garland of Sulpicia," poems about Sulpicia and Cerinthus written by someone else, conceivably Tibullus or Cerinthus himself (though there is no good evidence for either hypothesis). Because 3.9 is written from Sulpicia's point of view, perhaps this expression was a favorite of hers.
aeque … ac: “tam … ut”, but with indicative rather than subjunctive.This text is part of:
Sulpicia: Text, translation, and commentary. Anne Mahoney. 2000. Text created electronically.
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