Lygdamus 1 Notes

Question 1

If Lygdamus flatters the gods, what does he hope for in return?

Answer 1

Something nice like his girl

Question 2

Where is there synecdoche?

Answer 2

‘Tecti’ for dwelling

Question 3

Does he talk about a house being well known and easy to spot?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

How does he emphasise the appearance of his house?

Answer 4

Tautology

Question 5

Where is the second lot of tautology?

Answer 5

‘Completion of my light’s full time’

Question 6

What does permenso literally mean?

Answer 6

‘Measured out’

Question 7

What is a property of groves?

Answer 7

Sacred area

Question 8

What was Taenarus famous for?

Answer 8

Red marble

Question 9

What was Carystus famous for?

Answer 9

White and green marble

Question 10

Where is there a third piece of tautology?

Answer 10

Dwelling woods resemble sacred groves

Question 11

Why does line 18 have lots of soft sounds? Explain with regards to ‘iuvat’

Answer 11

‘Iuvat’ is softer than ‘prodest’ to replicate soft wool

Question 12

Where is there enjambment?

Answer 12

‘Invidia est’

Question 13

What does he mean about the mob?

Answer 13

The mob loves lots of things wrongly

Question 14

Line 25 onwards shows what?

Answer 14

The height of his certainty

Question 15

What is emphatic?

Answer 15

Triple ‘nec’

Question 16

What is Lydia’s stream?

Answer 16

A river in Persia thought to contain gold

Question 17

What does ‘vecta’ mean?

Answer 17

Carried/ supported

Question 18

What does he suggest at the end?

Answer 18

Perhaps it is not fated for him to be with Neara

Question 19

What does languorous mean?

Answer 19

Little energy

Question 20

What is Lethe?

Answer 20

River of the underworld often synecdoche for the underworld itself

Question 21

Why does he mention the purple wool and shells?

Answer 21

Need a girl for this otherwise there is no use without one

Question 22

When he talks about poverty what does he actually mean?

Answer 22

Relative lack of wealth for his class

Question 23

What does he mean by ‘opulence of kings’?

Answer 23

Gifts meaningless without a girl

Question 24

Why does he mention Saturnia, the Drear Sisters and Cypria?

Answer 24

Deities associated with getting a girl

Question 25

What was Erythraea and what was it famed for?

Answer 25

An Ionian city famed for wise women

Question 26

Where is Sidon?

Answer 26

In modern day Lebanon just above Tyre on the West coast

Question 27

Who was Fortuna goddess of?

Answer 27

Fortune and the personification of luck

Question 28

Where is the Lycus River (Lydia)?

Answer 28

In Asia Minor, below the Black Sea and goes through Medea and Cilicia

Question 29

Who is Cypria?

Answer 29

Venus

Question 30

Why is Venus seen to be with a shell?

Answer 30

Depicted in a clam shell

Question 31

Where is Phrygia and Ionia?

Answer 31

Persian Empire around Turkey

Question 32

Where is Carystus?

Answer 32

Southern coast of Evia next to Greece

Question 33

Where is Taenarus?

Answer 33

In the peloponnese. An eponym including Cape Taenarum, Mount Taenarum and City Taenarus