stylistic 49 Flashcards
Venis e Gallia ad quaesturam petendam.
Emphatic historic present - focus on action and immediacy, paints picture
Conveys absolute clarity
Can only seek quaestorship when 30
Short sentence helps to anchor audience and relay fast paced activities
Aude dicere te prius ad parentem tuam venisse quam ad me.
Emphatic imperative - puts Cicero in dominant position
Lack of filioparity
Anthony = on spot
Same effect as question
Paterer… passus
Two forms of same verb
Caesaris litteras
Ceaser told him to be lenient and that’s why he forgave Anthony, implies wouldn’t have been done so easily if not for Caesar
Sum te passus
Hyperboton - te sandwiched emphasises him suffering
Gratia
Now claiming on fact he was initially so forgiving
Sum cultus
Hyperboton purposeful
Cultus a te, tu a me observatus
Beneficia - gratia etc
Chiasmus - MA cushioned on all sides, Cicero boasts himself would never have been possible without him
Te tu in middle = focused on himself
In petitione quaesturae
Cicero likes to repeat same thing in different way and different words
Occidere
Surprising usually necare but stronger verb, more impressive and emphatic. Delayed to emphasis wrong doing
C sound harsh and brutal
Es conatus
Hyperboton, shock and surprise
Tua sponte…impulsu meo
Chiastic word order - emphasises Anthony’s fault not Cicero’s
Meo, te, mihi, tuis, me etc
Lots of pronouns
For me for you
Beneficia, gratia etc
Satis
Life and the pain, only adequate payment to Cicero, boosts himself
illam, illud
Polypopoton
