Horace 1.22 Flashcards
What is Horace 1.22 about?
Horace explains that upright people don’t need weapons, you are safe wherever you go. And Horace is safe as long as Lalage loves him
How does the poem start?
A man who is upright in life and innocent of crime
What does the upright man not need?
doesn’t need Moorish arrows nor a bow,
nor a quiver, heavy with poisoned arrows, Fuscus
Where would a man need these weapons?
Whether he is going to travel through sweltering Syrtes,
or through the inhospitable Caucasus,
or the places where the fabulous Hysdaspes licks.
Why does a man not need these weapons?
For once in the Sabine wood a wolf fled from me unharmed
What protected Horace from the wolf?
While I sing to my Lalage and wondering behind my land,
free from care
What else with the wolf chose not to attack Horace?
A beast such as military Daunias
would not nurture its wide oak forests
What wouldn’t attack Horace in the dry land?
Nor would the dry land of Iuba breed it, the wet-nurse of lions.
How does Horace suggest that he is immortal?
Put me in the lifeless plains where no tree
is refreshed by the summer breeze,
Where is the lifeless plain?
Which is the edge of the world of cloud
[where] wicked Jupiter rules;
Where else is Horace safe after the edge of the world?
Put me beneath the chariot of the too close
sun in a land denied to houses
Why will he be protected beneath the chariot?
I will love Lalage sweetly laughing
sweetly talking
iaculis scelerisque
stylistic features
tautology = upright and innocent
eget Maruis iaculis neque
stylistic features
Metaphor for black people because good at bow and arrow
Sive … Sive… Vel…
stylistic features
anaphora and tricolour with sibilance.
