Prŏpertĭus

I. a Roman surname. So, Sex. Aurelius Propertius, a celebrated elegiac poet, an older contemporary of Ovid, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 53; Plin. Ep. 9, 22, 1; Quint. 10, 1, 93.—Gen. Properti, Ov. Tr. 2, 465 al.