Martial - Epigrams 6.60

Question 1

Translation

Answer 1

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Question 2

laudat, amat, cantat nostros mea Roma libellos,

Answer 2

My Rome praises, loves, chants my little books,

Question 3

meque sinus omnes, me manus omnis habet.

Answer 3

and all pockets hold me, every hand holds me.

Question 4

ecce rubet quidam, pallet, stupet, oscitat, odit.

Answer 4

Look, a certain man blushes, grows pale, is astonished, gapes, hates.

Question 5

hoc volo: nunc nobis carmina nostra placent.

Answer 5

I want this: now my poems please me.

Question 6

Stylistic analysis

Answer 6

Lines 1 - 4

Question 7

laudat, amat, cantat…

Answer 7

Tricolon + EP - emphasis on verbs at beginning of line

Question 8

libellos,

Answer 8

EP - emphasis on noun at end

Question 9

me… me… / omnes… omnis…

Answer 9

Anaphora - words repeated to stress them

Question 10

‘me’

Answer 10

Repetition - egocentric, focuses on himself

Question 11

ecce

Answer 11

Exclamation - attracts reader’s attention

Question 12

rubet… pallet, stupet, oscitat, odit.

Answer 12

Five verbs + asyndeton - emphasise magnitude of man’s reaction

Question 13

laudat, amat, cantat…

rubet… pallet, stupet, oscitat, odit.

Answer 13

Tricolon grows: 3 - 5

Question 14

rubet… pallet…

Answer 14

Juxtaposition - contrasts ideas and emphasises magnitude of man’s reaction

Question 15

hoc volo:

Answer 15

Sentence length - short after long list, shocks reader

Question 16

Nunc Nobis… Nostra…

Answer 16

Alliteration - draws attention to sentence