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1
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What is Catullus 62 about?

A

It is a song to be sung at a wedding to the god Hymenaeus the god of weddings. Each verse is sung alternately by gender.

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Who sings first?

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Men

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Why should the men start singing?

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  1. evening is here, young men arise
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How has evening arrived?

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  1. … Evening is barely
  2. raising his long awaited light from Olympus at last
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What should men leave to start singing instead?

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  1. Now it is time to leave the fat tables.
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What will happen once everyone has left the fat tables?

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Now the bride will come, now the wedding song will be said

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7
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What do they sing at the end of every 5 line phrase?

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Hymen, O Hymenaeus, Hymen you’re here, O Hymenaeus!

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How did the girls get the girls attention to fight the boys?

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  1. Girls do you see the boys? Arise against them
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9
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What triggered the girls to sing against the boys?

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  1. The bringer of night is surely showing the Etnan fires
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Why are the boys going to lose against the girls in line 9?

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It certainly is so, do you see how quickly they jump?
They haven’t even jumped up hastily

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11
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What will the boys sing? According to the girls.

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They will sing something worth defeating

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Why do the boys struggle according to the boys?

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There is no easy victory for us comrades
Look the girls are searching for what they have learnt

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Why are the girls so impressive?

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They do not learn in vain, they have something worth remembering

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How do the girls make sure they remember well?

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No wonder, they work deep with their whole mind

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How have the boys treated their minds compared to the girls?

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We have separated our minds and ears in different directions

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What will the boys’ separated minds achieve?

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Therefore we’ll be beaten justly, victory loves effort

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17
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How do the boys get the other boys’ attention?

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So now at least turn your minds

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18
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Why should the boys pay attention?

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Now they [the girls] are beginning to speak, now it will be right to respond

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How do the girls describe Hesperus?

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Hesperus, what crueler fire is carried in the sky?

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Why is Hesperus so cruel?

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You who can tear a daughter from her mother’ s embrace
To tear away a daughter clinging to her mother’s embrace

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Why does Hesperus take the daughter from the mother?

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To give the pure girl to a blazing youth

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22
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Whom is Hesperus compared to?

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What do enemies do more cruelly in a captured city?

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How do the boys describe Hesperus?

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Hesperus what nicer fire shines in the sky?

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24
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Why is Hesperus nice?

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You who strengthen arranged marriages with your flame
Which men and parents have promised beforehand

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25
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How do people ensure Hesperus has blessed the marriage?

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but not united before your flame has arisen

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26
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Why is a marriage so good?

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What is given by the Gods more desirable than the happy hour?

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27
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What has Hesperus done to the girls? L32

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Hesperus, friends has stolen one of us

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28
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What is missing after L32?

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Misses rest of female verse and start of male verse

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29
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What happens when Hesperus arrives?

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For at your arrival the guard is always awake

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30
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Why must the guard be awake?

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Thieves hide in the night whom you often catch

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31
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What is Hesperus called when he catches the thieves?

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While returning under your changed name of Eous

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32
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How are girls critiquing Hesperus?

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But girls like to criticise with fake complaint

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33
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Why should the girls not criticise Hesperus?

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What then, if they criticise the one they desire with a quiet mind?

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34
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What do the girls use as a symbol of virginity?

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As a flower is born in a secret walled garden,

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35
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What is significant about the flower?

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Unknown to the flock, torn up by no plough

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36
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Who takes care of the flower?

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Which the wind caresses, the sun strengthens, the rain brings up

37
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How is the secret flower treated?

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Many boys desired it, many girls desired it

38
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What happens when the flower is plucked?

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But when it is plucked by a gentle nail it dies

39
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How is the dead flower treated?

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No boys desired it, no girls desired it

40
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How is the flower similar to the woman?

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In the same way, a virgin while she remained untouched, she is dear to her family

41
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What happens if the girl is polluted?

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When she has lost her pure flower by polluting her body she does not stay pleasing to boys nor dear to girls

42
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What do the boys use as a symbol of virginity?

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As a widowed vine is born in a bare field

43
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What is a widowed vine?

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One not held up by a stick

44
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What is bad about the widowed vine?

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It never raises itself never produces a soft grape,

45
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What does the widowed vine do instead of producing a grape?

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But bending its gentle body down with downward weight

46
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What does the widowed vine do instead of producing a grape?

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But bending its gentle body down with downward weight

47
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What does the widowed vine do when it touches the ground?

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Now, now it touches the topmost shoot to its root.

48
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What happens to the widowed vine?

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No farmers cultivate, no oxen

49
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What happens if the vine is joined?

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But if by chance she is joined to a husband elm,
many farmers cultivate it, many oxen

50
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Why is the girl like the vine?

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So as long as the girl remains untouched, she grows uncultivated

51
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How does the girl get cultivated?

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When the right time she gains an equal marriage

52
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How does a cultivated girl get treated?

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She is more dear to her husband and less despised by her father

53
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Who sings Line 60 onwards?

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Both genders

54
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What should the bride do?

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And you, girl, don’t fight with such a husband

55
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Why shouldn’t the bride fight with her husband?

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It is not right to fight, with the one your father gave you

56
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Who gave the girl away?

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Your father, with your mother, whom you must obey

57
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Who does the girl’s virginity belong to?

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Your virginity is not all yours, [but] partly your parents’

58
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Who does her virginity belong to?

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A third part is from your father, a third part is to your mother

59
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What part of virginity does the girl have?

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Only a third is yours: don’t fight with the two people

60
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Why shouldn’t the girl fight with the two people who own her virginity?

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[they] who have given their rights to their son in law together with the dowry

61
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What is Vesper?

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The evening star a.k.a. Venus

62
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surgere iam tempus, iam pinguis linquere mensas
iam veniet virgo, iam dicetur hymenaeus

stylistic features

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“iam” Tetralonic anaphora.

Hymenause the god of weddings used as a metonym for wedding

63
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Who is Hymenaeus?

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God of weddings

64
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How are the girls verse similar to the boys?

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They have similar structure

65
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{Keep an eye out for lots of alliteration}

A

:)

66
Q

sic certest: viden… exsiluere

A

Ellision

67
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noc…
nec..
nos…

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Three line alliteration

68
Q

mentes… mentes

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Repetion

69
Q

penitus

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Deep = idiom

70
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ardenti castam

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Oxymoron

71
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qui natam possis complexu avellere matris
Complexu matris retinetntem avellerre natam

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Sort of chiasmus

72
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{Keep an eye our for rhetorical questions}

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:)

73
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How do you describe the similarity in verses?

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In parallel

74
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qui…
quae..
nec…
quid…

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Threee starting with q

75
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qui pepigere viri pepigerunt

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Polyptoton

76
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extuli ardor

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Comical homonym to sex

“Your flame has arisen

77
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Flos

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Flower as a symbol for virginity

78
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Multi illum puerit, multae

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Polyptoton of multae

79
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Nulli illum puerit, nullae

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Polyptoton of nullae

80
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Multi illum puerit, multae
Nulli illum puerit, nullae

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Similar = repetiton

81
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ut vidua

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Mimics girls verse about the flower, but this time with wine

82
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numquam… numquam..

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anaphora

83
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vitis

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vine = similar for male genitailia/female virginity

84
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iam iam

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Repetition

85
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iam iam

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repetition

86
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nulli coluere iuvenci
multi coluere iuvenci

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Reptition = parallelelismic chiasmus

87
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sic virgo

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tautology

88
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magis et minus

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juxtaposition

89
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pars patrest parte parentum

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polyptoton

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