stylistic 81

Question 1

two x rhetorical questions

Answer 1

audience is forced to question and form an answer for themselves

Question 2

posse… esses… esses… potuisses

Answer 2

chiasmus with polyptoton

Question 3

nuntiationem… spectitionem

Answer 3

homoteleuton

Question 4

spectionem

Answer 4

The point that C is making here is that augurs could only announce a bad omen before a meeting (nuntiatio) whereas consuls could state AT the meeting that they wished to observe the heavens, which was a more useful right, as C implied by facilis. Antony, although augur and consul, could have used either method, but chose as augur to announce bad auspices after the meeting had started, which was illegal. This error C uses as mark of A’s stupidity.

Question 5

nec enim est ab homine numquam sobrio postulanda prudentia; sed videte impudentiam. Multis ante mensibus

Answer 5

m/n alliteration
impudentiam - continued alliteration of p, play on word with roots prud- pud- combining it with virtual homoioteleuton -entia… entiam…
postulanda prudentia = alliteration of p and emphatic placement

Question 6

per leges

Answer 6

lex Claudia: proposed by Clodius in 58 BC which repealed the fundamental right of a tribune to veto decrees and official acts. The use of the plural may indicate that there were two laws passed by Clodius, but could be that he uses plural just to imply that A is breaking all sorts of laws…

Question 7

habitis… habeantur…

Answer 7

polyptoton

Question 8

implicata inscientia inpudentia

Answer 8

homoioteleuton with assonance in the prefix

Question 9

nec scit, quod… nec facit quod…

Answer 9

tricolon

Question 10

pudentem

Answer 10

picks up impudentia paronomasia

contrast between ideology behind a ‘decent man’ and ‘recklessness’