Re-waking the body

Question 1

‘surgit cadaver et profatur’

Answer 1

‘The corpse arose and spoke out’

Historic present

Question 2

‘desine, iam, precor desine’

Answer 2

‘stop now, I pray, stop’
repetition

Question 3

‘malis nuptae artibus peremptus et addictus noxio poculo’

Answer 3

‘Murdered by the wicked arts of my new bride and the victim of a poisoned wine cup’

Careful arrangement of the chiasmus reflects the bride’s scheming

Question 4

‘in profundam quietem sepelivererunt’

Answer 4

‘they buried him in a deep rest’
simile suggestive of death

Question 5

‘exsurgit [..] adit’

Answer 5

Historic present
‘he got up’
‘he went’

Question 6

‘prosectis naso prius ac mox auribus’

Answer 6

‘having cut off his nose first and then his ears’

Separation of the body parts in the chiasmus

Question 7

‘praemium non industriae sed lanienae consecutus’

Answer 7

‘having earned a reward not for effort, but that of mutilation’
Irony

Question 8

‘manu nasum prehendo: sequitur; aures pertracto: deruunt’

Answer 8

‘I grasped my nose with my hand: it came off; I touched my ears: they fell off’

Historic present
Asyndeton

Question 9

‘sic debilis et sic ridiculus’

Answer 9

‘so maimed and so ridiculous’
Repetition