Livy Chapter 2 The foul deed Flashcards
What did Sextus do after he left?
A few days later, sextus Tarquinius went back to Collatia
Who did Sextus bring?
With a companion but with Collatinus unaware
How did Lucretia respond to his arrival?
And there he is warmly welcomed by people unaware of his plan
Where did Sextus go after dinner?
When he had been led after dinner to the guest bedroom
What did Sextus make sure of entering the guest bedroom?
And after everything around him seemed safe enough and everyone was asleep
What did he do once everyone was asleep?
Enflamed with love, and with his sword drawn he went to the sleeping Lucretia
What did he do when he entered her bedroom?
He grabbed the woman’s breasts with his left hand and spoke
What did Sextus say to Lucretia?
Be quiet Lucretia, I am Sextus Tarquinius, there is a sword in my hand; you will die if you make a sound
How did Lucretia respond to his threat?
When the woman awoke terrified of sleep she saw no help to prevent her imminent death
What did Sextus do after Lucretia was silent?
then Tarquinius confessed his love, begged her
How was Sextus cruel to Lucretia?
mixed threats with entreaties and used every form of pressure on her woman’s mind
How did Lucretia respond to his love?
he saw that she was resisting and would not oblige him even under the fear of death
How did Sextus respond to Lucretias resistance?
He said that he would place a naked slave which he had killed next to her dead body
What would the naked slave achieve?
So that it would be said that she had been killed in a sordid act of adultery
How did Lucretia respond to the naked slave threat?
because of this terrifying threat, his victorious as it were lust had overcome her stubborn modesty
What did Tarquin do after Lucretias modesty was overcome?
and Tarquin had set out from there having ferociously besieged the woman’s honour
How did Lucretia respond after Tarquin left?
Lucretia, distraught at such and evil act sent the same messenger
Who did Lucretia send the messenger to?
her father in Rome and to her husband in Ardea
What did the messenger say?
They were to come with one loyal friend each: action and haste were needed: as an atrocious deed had happened.
Who did Lucretias father come with?
Spurious Lucretius came with Publics Valerius son of Volesus
Who did Lucreatias husband come with?
and Collatinus with Lucius Jurius Brutus
When did Collatinus see the message?
he had happened to be returning to Ardea when he had been met by his wife’s messenger
How did the husband and father find Lucretia?
They found Lucretia sitting grief struck in her bedroom
How did Lucretia respond to her husband and fathers arrival?
Tears welled up at the arrival of her family and friends
What did Collatinus ask Lucretia?
When her husband asked Are you Okay?
How did Lucretia respond to Are you Okay?
She said to him No
Why was Lucretia not okay?
For what well being is left for a woman who’s lost her sexual purtiy
How did Lucretia described the event?
Traces of another man are in your bed, Collatinus; but only my body is violated
How did Lucretia explain her innocence?
My mind is pure; death will be the witness
What did Lucretia ask her family to do?
But give your right hands as a promise that the adulterer will not escape punnishment for his deed
Who did Lucretia blame?
It is Sextus Tarquinius who is an enemy rather than a guest
What did Lucretia say Tarquinius did?
Armed with violence last night took away baneful joy from here
Who did Sextus take away joy from?
From here, from me and from me and if you are real men
How did the men respond?
They all gave their promise one after the other to console the traumatised woman
How did they console Lucretia?
by turning away the guilt from the victim to the person responsible for the crime
What did the men say?
They said that the mind sins not the body
Why does the mind sin and not the body?
Where there was no intention to commit a crime there is no blame
How did Lucretia respond to their consoling?
She said
You will determine what is owed to him
Did Lucretia believe she was innocent?
Even if I free myself from sin, I don’t free myself from punnishment
Why is Lucretia not free from punishment?
And from now no unchained woman will love following Lucretias example
What did she do when she finished speaking?
She stabbed the knife that she was hiding under her clothes into her heart
How did Lucretia die?
Falling over unto her wounds she fell down dying
How did her family respond to her death?
Together her husband and father cried out
Traces of another man = in lecto sunt tuo
Metaphorical
Dexteras fidemque
right and hands = hendiadys
mors testis erit = death will be the witness
Ambigious/foreshadowing
Inveniunt
Historic present
ne mortis quid mentu
Murmarance to make it sound serious
Metum
Homoioptotum
metu metum
Polyptoton
Ingulantum servunt midam
murmarance for the horror of the naked slave
Vi vixtrix libido
Lust is personified
V alliteration
Military vocabulary
Collatinus cum comite
Alliteration of C to build of suspense
Amore ardens
Love is enflamed = metaphor and allliteartion
Sex Tarquinius sum
Direct speech fro drama
Fateri amorem, orare, miseree, vestare
Tetracolon of things Sextus did to Lucretia
Asyndeton for speed and awkwardness
Muliebrem animum
Womanly mind
Abstract description
