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Question 1

Nero Anti agens

Answer 1

contradicts his patriotic claims in 36

Question 2

non ante

Answer 2

emphatic position stresses it was only motivation for return

Question 3

domui eius

Answer 3

only takes action when it concerns him directly

Question 4

ignis propinquaret

Answer 4

delayed till the last possible moment, like his response

Question 5

Palatium et domus et cuncta circum haurirentur

Answer 5

polysyndetonic tricolon - emphasises extent of damage

Question 6

sed solacium

Answer 6

marks change in tone, Nero finally does something good

Question 7

profugo

Answer 7

fugitives in their own city - war metaphor

Question 8

multitudinem inopem

Answer 8

conveys just how many people were left with nothing

Question 9

subvecta

Answer 9

Nero’s haste

Question 10

… ad ternos nummos

Answer 10

N is willing to upset the merchants by severely cutting their profit margins, suggesting his genuine concern

Question 11

perserverat rumor

Answer 11

personification of rumour implies its power; inversion of normal word order implies the extent to which it has spread

Question 12

Troianum

Answer 12

this pathetic love for the effeminate Greeks again

Question 13

hortos quin etiam suos

Answer 13

N is uncharacteristically selfless