stylistic 82

Question 1

eius … consulatum

Answer 1

hyperbaton
look what he did as consul, leaving consulatum at the end leaves the listener on edge… what is he going to mention?!
his lust…. avarice… cowardice… bathos. low and anticlimactic - creates situation where people unexpectedly chuckle; bringing tone down

Question 2

ad Idus Martias

Answer 2

Caesar died

Question 3

adparitor

Answer 3

the attendant of the magistrate, e.g. the lictors that preceded the consul in a procession or a herald.

Question 4

tam humilis, tam abiectus?

Answer 4

balance
repetition of tam (anaphora)
asyndeton
the use of synonyms (pleonasm)…

Question 5

Nihil

Answer 5

v omnia!! contrast

Question 6

t in aversam lecticam

Answer 6

the litter had curtains, one of which is at the back, through which A was in the habit of poking his head in order to talk to Caesar, who travelled by litter when he was ill. Prob exaggeration including selling of favours…

Question 7

Sortitio praerogativae

Answer 7

Originally Comitia Centuriata had legislative powers and judged appeals against sentences passed in courts, but by C’s time, it only held elections and the right to declare war and peace.

Question 8

Renuntiatur; tacet.

Answer 8

2 words for same thing - variatio

Question 9

quiescit…vocatur

Answer 9

quiescit… vocatur hist. present with tricolon of short sentences