LIT CRIT Flashcards
cognitaresmeritamvatiperAchaidasurbes
attuleratfamamnomenqueerataugurisingens.
- meritam- does pentheus deserve to die, does bacchus deserve to be worshipped
- vati/auguris-pleonasm
- cognita-sets the theme knowing
spernitEchionidestamenhuncexomnibusunus,
contemptorsuperumPentheus,praesagaqueridet
-spernit.contemptor- emphatic positioning verbs hatred
-framed with the addition of “ridet” very negative
-ex omnibus unus- antithesis, hyperbole, homoioteleuton
-patronymic, Aneas=Anchisiades
Echion was last alive after the “sown men of dragons teeth” civil strife
verba senis tenebrasque et cladem lucis ademptae
obicit. ille movens albentia tempora canis
- albentia/canis- pleonasm
- sibilance brings the prophecy more memorable homoioteleuton
- direct address
- obicit, emphatic positioning
- “…que et”
“quamfelixesses,situquoqueluminishuius
orbus”ait“fieres,neBacchicasacravideres.
- sibilance, powerfull
- direct address
- orbus, emphatic positiong
- first line is spondaic, power
namquediesaderit,quamnonproculauguroresse,
quanovushucveniat,prolesSemeleia,Liber;
Liber at end
-tri colon,
quemnisitemplorumfuerisdignatushonore,
millelacerspargerelocisetsanguinesilvas
honore- pentheus importance
- graphic detail, emphatic on mille
- all these related words are polyptoton
- lacer spargere, juxtaposition
- “et, que, que (next lines) polysyndeton
foedabismatremquetuammatrisquesorores.
eveniet;nequeenimdignaberenumenhonore,
-tricolone with previous line polysyndeton importance of being killed by familly -"matrem..matris" +tuam -foedabis exageration, spondaic - eveniet's position is emphatic -Ino and Autnonoe
mequesubhistenebrisnimiumvidissequereris.”
taliadicentemproturbatEchionenatus.
n sounds makes his coming seem terrible foreboding
-neque and meque
-proturbat is in the historic present, paradoxical
-echione natus
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taliadicentemproturbatEchionenatus.
dicta fides sequitur responsaque vatis aguntur:
wegweg
Liber adest festisque fremunt ululatibus agri;
turbaruitmixtaequevirismatresquenurusque
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vulgusqueproceresqueignotaadsacraferuntur. 530
“quisfuror,anguigenae,prolesMavortia,vestras
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attonuitmentes?”Pentheusait:
“aeranetantum
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aererepulsavalentetaduncotibiacornu
etmagicaefraudes,
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ut,quosnonbellicusensis,
nontubaterruerit,nonstrictisagminatelis,
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femineae voces et mota insania vino
obscenique greges et inania tympana vincant?
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vosne, senes, mirer, qui longa per aequora vecti
hac Tyron, hac profugos posuistis sede penates,
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nunc sinitis sine Marte capi? vosne, acrior aetas, 540
propiorquemeae,quosarmatenere,
thrth
nonthyrsos,galeaquetegi,nonfronde,decebat?
este, precor, memores, qua sitis stirpe creati,
thrth
illiusque animos, qui multos perdidit unus,
sumite serpentis.
rthtr
pro fontibus ille lacuque 545
interiit: at vos pro fama vincite vestra.
yrh
ille dedit leto fortes: vos pellite molles
et patrium retinete decus.
grh
si fata vetabant
stare diu Thebas, utinam tormenta virique
egwg
moenia diruerent, ferrumque ignisque sonarent.
essemus miseri sine crimine, sorsque querenda,
erg
non celanda foret, lacrimaeque pudore carerent;
at nunc a puero Thebae capientur inermi,
egreg
quem neque bella iuvant nec tela nec usus equorum,
sed madidus murra crinis mollesque coronae 555
rgeg
purpuraque et pictis intextum vestibus aurum,
quem quidem ego actutum (modo vos absistite) cogam
SDG
adsumptumque patrem commentaque sacra fateri.
an satis Acrisio est animi, contemnere vanum
SAFSF
numen et Argolicas venienti claudere portas:
Penthea terrebit cum totis advena Thebis?
WFQ
ite citi’ (famulis hoc imperat), ‘ite ducemque
attrahite huc vinctum! iussis mora segnis abesto!’
aegw
huncavus,huncAthamas,huncceteraturbasuorum 564
corripiuntdictisfrustraqueinhiberelaborant.
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acrioradmonituest,irritaturqueretenta
etcrescitrabiesmoderaminaqueipsanocebant.
wegew
sicegotorrentem,quanilobstabateunti,
leniusetmodicostrepitudecurrerevidi;
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atquacumquetrabesobstructaquesaxatenebant, 570
spumeusetfervensetabobicesaevioribat.
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