Horace 32 Flashcards
you are old
def not a complimentary poem coming up
seem lovely and sportive and you drink
he is critisizing that she drinks because women in the roman era weren’t supposed to drink
indifferent Cupid
Cupid is not interested
Chia’s fair cheeks
Chia is young
he wont
this is Cupid
sapless oaks
nature/ unable to have children- useless
snow on your head pollute you
Lyce has grey hair
Nor glistening Coan silk no precious gems can bring you back the days that transient time has shut away in superseded calendars
even dressing up in expensive clothes/ jewels won’t help
Alas
regret
complexion and graceful carriage
women’s faces and the way they walk when young
Cinara’s happy successor
He ditched Cinara for Lyce
To Cinara Fates allowed few years but Lyce shall be long
she must died young
preserved, an aged crow
mocking her
that burning young men may study (not without much laughter) the torch collapsed in ashes
passion
What is the point that Horace is tying to make?
Is it better to die young? and will beauty be remembered? because love isn’t for old people
