Abstract
This article discusses Roman poet Sextus Propertius and his relationship with a poet of the previous generation, C. Cornelius Gallus. Aspects of Propertius' first collection of poems, "Monobiblos". Erotics versus poetics; Aspects of the relationship between the speaker and his beloved in comparison to the poet and other men. The poem as demonstrating an imbrication of poetic and sexual concerns in the relationships between men in the "Monobiblos" similar to that which has so frequently been claimed for the relationship between the poet and the puella.