Love And Luxury

Question 1

Catullus 76: When he believes that he is dutiful

Answer 1

Cum se cogitat esse pium

Nosse…tenere (physical meaning)

Question 2

Catullus 60: Barking Scylla didn’t beget you from the lowest part of her loins

Answer 2

Scylla latrans infima inguinum parte

Question 3

Catullus 58: she shucks the grandsons of great Remus

Answer 3

Glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes

Question 4

Catullus 60: By nature like bronze

Answer 4

Natu ceu aes

Question 5

Catullus 72: But as a father loves his children and sons-in-law

Answer 5

Sed pater ut gratos diligit et generos

Question 6

Catullus 72: As a vulgar friendship

Answer 6

Ut vulgus amicam

Question 7

Catullus 8: Poetic Ego

Answer 7

discontinuity of past and present- speaker both laments and renounces an ideal past in which the speaker’s love of his mistress was fulfilled - lack of enjambment produces a harsh rhythm that reinforces the imperatives (reproaches himself many times for continuing to lover her- commands himself to accept her rejection) - vacillations between resolution to move forward and romantic nostalgia for a time gone (or perhaps that never was),also shifts between refering to himself in the second and third person- disparity between the speakers perspective and ‘miser catullus’ - demonstrates the ability to perceive his own foolishness but his inability to change it

Question 8

Catullus 55: One of them, baring her naked bosom, says

Answer 8

quaedam inquit, nudum reducta pectus

dressed in a manner which enables her to flash - sexworker

Question 9

Catullus 16: I will sodomize you and face-fuck you,

cocksucker Aurelius and bottom bitch Furius

Answer 9

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi

Sex as political slander

Question 10

Cicero 30: For it was my duty to plead for some sort of exemption from several rules for youth, to claim some indulgence

Answer 10

erat enim meum deprecari vacationem adulescentiae veniamque petere

Question 11

Cicero 31: He wanted to kill her

Answer 11

necare eandem voluit

Question 12

Cicero 32: (if I had not a quarrel) with that woman’s husband—brother, I meant to say; I am always making this mistake

Answer 12

(nisi intercederent mihi inimicitiae) cum istius mulieris viro — fratrem volui dicere

Question 13

Cicero 33: then I must summon up from the shades below one of those bearded old men

Answer 13

aliquis mihi ab inferis excitandus est ex barbatis illis

Question 14

Cicero 34: virtues exemplified not only in the men, but also in the women

Answer 14

cum in viris tum etiam in feminis repetita moverunt

Question 15

Cicero 40: The very records which used to contain accounts of that old fashioned strictness of morals, are worn out and that not only among us

Answer 15

verum haec genera virtutum non solum in moribus nostris sed vix iam in libris reperiuntur

Question 16

Cicero 42: Who is not captivated by any fragrance, or touch, or flavour

Answer 16

non odore ullo, non tactu, non sapore capiatur

Question 17

Cicero 49: Any woman, not being married, has opened her house to the passions of everybody, and has openly established herself in the way of life of a harlot

Answer 17

quae non nupta mulier domum suam patefecerit omnium cupiditati palamque sese in meretricia vita conlocarit

Question 18

Cicero 49: Adulterer or Lover? Does he seem to have been attacking chastity or merely to have aimed at satisfying his desires?

Answer 18

adulter an amator, expugnare pudicitiam an explere libidinem voluisse videatur?

Question 19

Catullus 1

Answer 19

Manifesto what poetry should be

‘laboriosis’ - doublespeak: it took work to write and will take work to read