Properius 24

Question 1

I that was once flung open wide for mighty triumphs, the portal named for Tarpeia’s modesty, whose threshold gold-plated chariots thronged, and suppliant tears of prisoners made wet

Answer 1

this is what happened in the past; It is the door talking about previous owner who he seemed proud of

Question 2

now am stricken by drunkards’ nightly brawls, often I groan at the thumps of unworthy fists nor do I lack unsightly garlands hung up and torches lie as signs to those excluded

Answer 2

this is now in the present and contrasts with the first few lines

Question 3

honour surrendered to lewd graffiti

Answer 3

the door is not respected and has been vandalised

Question 4

Her life more foul than this generation’s rankness he’s not converted to spare her own good name

Answer 4

The door thinks his new owner is more fowl than the last one

Question 5

long alfresco virgil

Answer 5

fresh air

Question 6

rehersing his poems with insinuating charm

Answer 6

pleas of lover to enter

Question 7

“door more inwardly crule than my mistress’ self… and discreatly produced the offerings due!”

Answer 7

Here the door is quoting the lovers

Question 8

midnight full stars and the icy breezes of dawn’s frost pinch

Answer 8

the lovers would wait there all night

Question 9

mistress… stubborn… Now she lies fast in another’s blest arms

Answer 9

thinks she’s with another

Question 10

my words fade on the zephrys of night

Answer 10

What does the lover think of the mistress- angry that she is with another possibly her husband

Question 11

you the special cause of my grief

Answer 11

ovid cursed the door keeper and here the lovers are cursing the door

Question 12

my bribes

Answer 12

Ovid tried to bribe the door keeper and here the lovers are doing the same with the door

Question 13

no insolence of my tongue

Answer 13

like ovid- trying to make friends