Catullus 99 Flashcards
What is Catullus 99 about?
Catullus feeling the repercussions of kissing Iuventus and him not enjoying it.
What did Catullus do to Iuventus?
I stole from you, while you play, sweet Iuventus
What did Catullus steal?
A kiss sweeter than sweet ambrosia.
How did Catullus feel about taking the kiss from Iuventus?
In truth I did not take it without punishment,
Why did Catullus not take the kiss without punishment?
For more than an hour I remember I was fixed to a top of a cross
What did Catullus do while fixed to the cross?
While I excused myself to you Im not able to take away
What can’t Catullus take away from Iuventus?
a tiny amount of your anger with any weeping.
How did Iuventus react to the kiss?
For as soon as it was done, you washed away your diluted lips
with many buckets of water will all your fingers
Why did Iuventus wash his mouth so thoroughly?
So that not anything infected would stay from my mouth
How did Catullus describe his kiss on Iuventus?
like dirty saliva from a prostitute who has pissed herself.
What did Iuventus do after he washed his mouth?
Meanwhile you didn’t stop to hand over poor me hostile love
and tortue me in every way
Why did Catullus feel tortured by Iuventus?
For me that kiss was changed from ambrosia
What was the kiss changed from ambrosia into?
into something sadder than sad hellebore
What has Catullus learned from this experience?
Since you impose this punishment for sad love
I will never steal kisses again.
Surripui ….
….. Surripam
stylistic features
Emphatic first position of I stole,
then at the end of the poem I will steal emphatic last position
dulci dulcus ambrosia
stylistic features
Alliteration of d for emphasis on the sweetness
ambrosia motif throughout poem
id non impune tuli
stylistic features
Not without
double negative to draw attention to the punnishment
suffixam in summa me memini esse cruce
stylistic features
Siblance and murmarance
and cruce refering to roman cross which is a bit hyperbolic
guttis abstersisti omnibus articulis
stylistic features
is, st, onomatapoeic sounds like spitting and water
commicatae
stylist features
use of pissed as swear
infesto miserum me tradere amori
stylistic features
infesto amori
hostile love, oxymororn
also metaphoric
excruciare
stylistic features
public punishment alludes to cross at the beginning
tristi tristius elleboro
stylistic features
alliteration and polyptoton of sadness
elleboro alludes to the contrast at the start of ambrosia
quam quoniam poenam misero proponis amori
Mumarance and alliteration showing the punishment and horror
basia surripiam
stylistic features
First person, almost humorous because we know he will steal kisses again
This poem has;…
cyclical structure , ambrosia at beginning and end
stealing kisses at beginning and end
punishment and beginning and end
