Catullus 99

Question 1

What is Catullus 99 about?

Answer 1

Catullus feeling the repercussions of kissing Iuventus and him not enjoying it.

Question 2

What did Catullus do to Iuventus?

Answer 2

I stole from you, while you play, sweet Iuventus

Question 3

What did Catullus steal?

Answer 3

A kiss sweeter than sweet ambrosia.

Question 4

How did Catullus feel about taking the kiss from Iuventus?

Answer 4

In truth I did not take it without punishment,

Question 5

Why did Catullus not take the kiss without punishment?

Answer 5

For more than an hour I remember I was fixed to a top of a cross

Question 6

What did Catullus do while fixed to the cross?

Answer 6

While I excused myself to you Im not able to take away

Question 7

What can’t Catullus take away from Iuventus?

Answer 7

a tiny amount of your anger with any weeping.

Question 8

How did Iuventus react to the kiss?

Answer 8

For as soon as it was done, you washed away your diluted lips
with many buckets of water will all your fingers

Question 9

Why did Iuventus wash his mouth so thoroughly?

Answer 9

So that not anything infected would stay from my mouth

Question 10

How did Catullus describe his kiss on Iuventus?

Answer 10

like dirty saliva from a prostitute who has pissed herself.

Question 11

What did Iuventus do after he washed his mouth?

Answer 11

Meanwhile you didn’t stop to hand over poor me hostile love
and tortue me in every way

Question 12

Why did Catullus feel tortured by Iuventus?

Answer 12

For me that kiss was changed from ambrosia

Question 13

What was the kiss changed from ambrosia into?

Answer 13

into something sadder than sad hellebore

Question 14

What has Catullus learned from this experience?

Answer 14

Since you impose this punishment for sad love
I will never steal kisses again.

Question 15

Surripui ….

….. Surripam

stylistic features

Answer 15

Emphatic first position of I stole,
then at the end of the poem I will steal emphatic last position

Question 16

dulci dulcus ambrosia

stylistic features

Answer 16

Alliteration of d for emphasis on the sweetness

ambrosia motif throughout poem

Question 17

id non impune tuli

stylistic features

Answer 17

Not without

double negative to draw attention to the punnishment

Question 18

suffixam in summa me memini esse cruce

stylistic features

Answer 18

Siblance and murmarance

and cruce refering to roman cross which is a bit hyperbolic

Question 19

guttis abstersisti omnibus articulis

stylistic features

Answer 19

is, st, onomatapoeic sounds like spitting and water

Question 20

commicatae

stylist features

Answer 20

use of pissed as swear

Question 21

infesto miserum me tradere amori

stylistic features

Answer 21

infesto amori

hostile love, oxymororn

also metaphoric

Question 22

excruciare

stylistic features

Answer 22

public punishment alludes to cross at the beginning

Question 23

tristi tristius elleboro

stylistic features

Answer 23

alliteration and polyptoton of sadness

elleboro alludes to the contrast at the start of ambrosia

Question 24

quam quoniam poenam misero proponis amori

Answer 24

Mumarance and alliteration showing the punishment and horror

Question 25

basia surripiam

stylistic features

Answer 25

First person, almost humorous because we know he will steal kisses again

Question 26

This poem has;…

Answer 26

cyclical structure , ambrosia at beginning and end
stealing kisses at beginning and end
punishment and beginning and end