Horace 4.1 Flashcards
What is Horace 4.1?
This poem is about how Horace is too old for love, and so Venus should go bother the rich man Paulus.
Paulus will give him nice things, and all sorts of parties.
Nobody can make Horace love, and because of that he is sad and can only love in dreams.
How does Horace start this poem?
Venus are your brining back
long paused wars?
What does Horace ask of Venus?
Be merciful I pray, I pray.
Why should Venus be merciful?
I am not as I was under the reign of good Cinara.
What should Venus do to be merciful?
Stop, savage mother of sweet Cupids
What should Venus stop doing?
Bending one now hard to your soft orders for 50 years
What should Venus do instead?
Go away, where the nice prayers of young men call you back.
What young man in particular?
Suitably, you should feed in the house of Paulus Maximus on purple scents and you will be happy
What will Venus do to Paulus?
If you are seeking to churn a suitable liver;
Why should Venus choose Paulus?
for he is noble and decent
and loud for defendants,
a boy of 100 skills
What will Paulus do for Venus?
He will bear your army’s sign widely
How does Paulus treat his enemies?
And, whenever he is more powerful
he will laugh at the gifts of a generous rival
What will Paulus build for Venus?
And will put for you a marble statue near the
Alban lake beneath a citrus wood beam.
What will Venus smell with Paulus?
You will take with your nostrils
much incense there
What will Venus hear with Paulus?
And enjoy the lyre and
Berecynthian flute
mixed songs with a panpipe
Who will Venus and Paulus party with?
There twice a day boys
praising your power with gentle
virgins with white feet
What will the group of boys and virgins do?
Shake the Salian ground in triple time.
Who are the people who can’t help Horace fall in love?
No woman, no boy
no trusting hope of a shared mind
no fighting with wine
no surrounding my temples with new flowers can help me.
After all this, who is the poem addressed to and how does Horace feel?
But why alas, Ligurnius, why
does a rare tear trickle over my cheeks?
What other symptoms of sadness does Horace feel?
Why does my eloquent tongue fall between
words into improper silence?
Where does Horace keep his love?
I now hold in my night timed dreams
you captive,
What does Horace do with the captive love?
Now I follow you a bird of prey
Where does he follow love to?
through the grasses of the camp of Mars,
you through the wild waters, harsh one.
Who is Cinarae?
Previous girlfriend
Who is Paulus?
Real person, close friend of Augustus - famous for his extravagance - also a good lawyer
Intermissa Venus.. bella
stylistic features
Antithesis between love and war
Parce precor precor
stylistic features
Alliteration emphasising Horace’s desperation for Venus to be merciful
Desine Dulcium
stylistic features
Alliteration and antithesis of sweet and savage to show his contrasting feelings towards Venus
purpureis ales oloribus
stylistic features
Feed on purple smells = metaphor for rich and powerful
namque et nobilis et decens //
et pro…. //
et….
stylistic features
Polysyndeton and enjambement to show how great he is and extensive his skills and resources
What is the significance of Alban?
Alban is the city where Romulus and remus came from
Albanos prope te lacus//
ponet marmoream sub trabe citrea
stylistic features
Hyperbolic of this great structure that Paulus will build.
Illic … //
illic …//
Repetition and anaphora to draw attention to these two sections about sense and partying
What is the significance of Berecyntia?
Berecynthian flutes are famous for their good quality
Numen
stylistic features
Specific word for power that only is used for godly power
Nec … nec… nec… nec… nec… nec..
stylistic features
Negative polysyndeton to contrast the plysyndeton before,
lots of polysyndeton for all the things Paulus is and will do
contrasted to negative polysyndeton about all the things Horace can’t be made to fall in love
iam nec spes animi credula multi
stylistic features
metaphor = shared mind - close relationship
Nec certare iuvat mero
stylistic features
Personification of wine - fighting with wine - drunk
Sed cur heu Ligurine cur
stylistic features
Double cur repetition to show his despair
Cur facunda parrum decoro
inter verba cadit lingua silentio?
stylistic features
Rhetorical question to emphasise distress.
iam captum teneo
stylistic features
Ambigious about who he has captive
Cupid? A lover?
What is the significance of Camp Martii?
Good place to pick up girls and sex with whores.
volucrem sequor
stylistic features
Metaphor = describing the hunt for love like a bird of prey to show action and again tying in to love is like a solider.
