Livy Chapter 2 The foul deed Flashcards

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What did Sextus do after he left?

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A few days later, sextus Tarquinius went back to Collatia

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Who did Sextus bring?

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With a companion but with Collatinus unaware

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How did Lucretia respond to his arrival?

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And there he is warmly welcomed by people unaware of his plan

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Where did Sextus go after dinner?

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When he had been led after dinner to the guest bedroom

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What did Sextus make sure of entering the guest bedroom?

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And after everything around him seemed safe enough and everyone was asleep

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What did he do once everyone was asleep?

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Enflamed with love, and with his sword drawn he went to the sleeping Lucretia

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What did he do when he entered her bedroom?

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He grabbed the woman’s breasts with his left hand and spoke

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What did Sextus say to Lucretia?

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Be quiet Lucretia, I am Sextus Tarquinius, there is a sword in my hand; you will die if you make a sound

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How did Lucretia respond to his threat?

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When the woman awoke terrified of sleep she saw no help to prevent her imminent death

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What did Sextus do after Lucretia was silent?

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then Tarquinius confessed his love, begged her

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How was Sextus cruel to Lucretia?

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mixed threats with entreaties and used every form of pressure on her woman’s mind

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How did Lucretia respond to his love?

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he saw that she was resisting and would not oblige him even under the fear of death

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How did Sextus respond to Lucretias resistance?

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He said that he would place a naked slave which he had killed next to her dead body

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What would the naked slave achieve?

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So that it would be said that she had been killed in a sordid act of adultery

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How did Lucretia respond to the naked slave threat?

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because of this terrifying threat, his victorious as it were lust had overcome her stubborn modesty

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What did Tarquin do after Lucretias modesty was overcome?

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and Tarquin had set out from there having ferociously besieged the woman’s honour

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How did Lucretia respond after Tarquin left?

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Lucretia, distraught at such and evil act sent the same messenger

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Who did Lucretia send the messenger to?

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her father in Rome and to her husband in Ardea

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What did the messenger say?

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They were to come with one loyal friend each: action and haste were needed: as an atrocious deed had happened.

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Who did Lucretias father come with?

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Spurious Lucretius came with Publics Valerius son of Volesus

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Who did Lucreatias husband come with?

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and Collatinus with Lucius Jurius Brutus

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When did Collatinus see the message?

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he had happened to be returning to Ardea when he had been met by his wife’s messenger

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How did the husband and father find Lucretia?

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They found Lucretia sitting grief struck in her bedroom

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How did Lucretia respond to her husband and fathers arrival?

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Tears welled up at the arrival of her family and friends

25
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What did Collatinus ask Lucretia?

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When her husband asked Are you Okay?

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How did Lucretia respond to Are you Okay?

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She said to him No

27
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Why was Lucretia not okay?

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For what well being is left for a woman who’s lost her sexual purtiy

28
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How did Lucretia described the event?

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Traces of another man are in your bed, Collatinus; but only my body is violated

29
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How did Lucretia explain her innocence?

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My mind is pure; death will be the witness

30
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What did Lucretia ask her family to do?

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But give your right hands as a promise that the adulterer will not escape punnishment for his deed

31
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Who did Lucretia blame?

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It is Sextus Tarquinius who is an enemy rather than a guest

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What did Lucretia say Tarquinius did?

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Armed with violence last night took away baneful joy from here

33
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Who did Sextus take away joy from?

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From here, from me and from me and if you are real men

34
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How did the men respond?

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They all gave their promise one after the other to console the traumatised woman

35
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How did they console Lucretia?

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by turning away the guilt from the victim to the person responsible for the crime

36
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What did the men say?

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They said that the mind sins not the body

37
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Why does the mind sin and not the body?

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Where there was no intention to commit a crime there is no blame

38
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How did Lucretia respond to their consoling?

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She said

You will determine what is owed to him

39
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Did Lucretia believe she was innocent?

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Even if I free myself from sin, I don’t free myself from punnishment

40
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Why is Lucretia not free from punishment?

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And from now no unchained woman will love following Lucretias example

41
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What did she do when she finished speaking?

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She stabbed the knife that she was hiding under her clothes into her heart

42
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How did Lucretia die?

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Falling over unto her wounds she fell down dying

43
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How did her family respond to her death?

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Together her husband and father cried out

44
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Traces of another man = in lecto sunt tuo

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Metaphorical

45
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Dexteras fidemque

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right and hands = hendiadys

46
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mors testis erit = death will be the witness

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Ambigious/foreshadowing

47
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Inveniunt

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Historic present

48
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ne mortis quid mentu

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Murmarance to make it sound serious

49
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Metum

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Homoioptotum

50
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metu metum

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Polyptoton

51
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Ingulantum servunt midam

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murmarance for the horror of the naked slave

52
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Vi vixtrix libido

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Lust is personified
V alliteration
Military vocabulary

53
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Collatinus cum comite

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Alliteration of C to build of suspense

54
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Amore ardens

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Love is enflamed = metaphor and allliteartion

55
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Sex Tarquinius sum

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Direct speech fro drama

56
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Fateri amorem, orare, miseree, vestare

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Tetracolon of things Sextus did to Lucretia

Asyndeton for speed and awkwardness

57
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Muliebrem animum

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Womanly mind

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