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Sulpicia 3.13 Notes Flashcards

1
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Why were Sulpicia’s poems banned?

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They didn’t think they were good poems and were too complex

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Who suggests Sulpicia 3.13 was a concluding poem?

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Voss 1810
Smith 1913
Tränkle 1990

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3
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Do people think Sulpicia thought of publication?

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No

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4
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How did Smith (1913) say her poems read?

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It reads more like an extract from her own diary

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5
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What is this poem stating about love?

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The triumph and elation of love achieved in a series of bravado statements

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6
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Why should lines 7-8 be scrutinised?

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It is normal for writing tablets to be kept sealed for confidentiality but Sulpicia wants everyone to know

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7
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What were emblems of poetry?

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Books, tablets and pages

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What are the wax tablets objects of in Catullus poems?

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Pursuit
Poetry that Catullus wants back
The idea of the contents matching or not matching the deluxe materials they were made of

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9
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What do her ‘unsealed tablets’ suggest?

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Her tablets are open/ published

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10
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Who is the implied reader?

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The snooping messenger reading the unsealed writing tablets

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11
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What are the wax tablets a symbol of in Propertius and Sulpicia?

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The impromptu nature of love elegy

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12
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What suggests Propertius is alluding to Sulpicia?

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The phraseology about writing tablets is common in both but in Sulpicia, it occurs in one line

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13
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What sort of speech has this poem been said to be?

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Monologue

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14
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What type of verb could ‘ferar’ be?

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Subjunctive

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15
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Which words are non-committal for an introductory poem?

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‘Illum’ and ‘meus’

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16
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What else could the non-committal words do?

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A designed inducement to the reader to proceed further

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17
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Which words have a slight grammar inappropriateness together?

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‘Fama’ and ‘nudasse’

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18
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What would be an alternative interpretation of line 2 given the grammar and word order inappropriateness?

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‘Than the fact that’

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19
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What sort of infinitives are present?

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Subject infinitives

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20
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How could lines 1-2 be a pun on Amor?

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‘Tandem venit Amor’ Sounds like a statement in a Cletic hymn to summon Amor

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21
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What characteristic is Cupid suggested to have?

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Naked

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22
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What is Sulpicia playing with with regards to Amor?

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The thought of clothing and unclothing Amor

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23
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What is ‘tego’ the opposite of?

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‘Nudo’

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24
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What is ‘tego’ idiomatic for?

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‘Vestio’ which means ‘to clothe’

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25
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What is the paradox?

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Clothing Amor in shame

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26
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What does the phrase with Camenis remind us of?

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The incantation of Daphnis

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27
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What can Amor not mean?

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A lover

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28
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Who is ‘Illum’ in line 3?

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Cerinthus

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29
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Is there a delay in showing the identity of Cerinthus?

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Yes which could be artful or artfulness

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30
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What could lines 3-4 be a parallel to?

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A Sappho poem 1 (he entreated Aphrodite and did in the past)

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31
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What is the parallel with delivery a lover?

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Aphrodite rescues Paris in Homer

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32
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What is a common verb in elegies?

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‘Exorare’

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33
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Who is Cytherea?

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Aphrodite

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34
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What pattern of nouns and adjectives is in line 3?

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ABAB

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35
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What device is ‘Camena’?

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Metonymy

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36
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Who are the Camenae known as?

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Muses

37
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Do the Camenae have elevated status?

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Yes

38
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What does Sulpicia suppose Venus has promisd?

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Success in love

39
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‘Fidem exsolvere’ has parallels with what?

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Cicero and Tacitus

40
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What is Sulpicia saying in lines 5-6?

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If anyone did not believe in the possibility of fulfilment in love after their own experience, look to Sulpicia’s experience to see it exists
Could refer to envious people
Or ‘let over-strict old men talk I don’t care’

41
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Why does Sulpicia not care what people say about her love life?

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Venus has fulfilled her promises and her love life is up and running

42
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What sort of talk does Sulpicia expect will happen if people discovered her love affair?

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Gossip and hostile talk

43
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Who does Sulpicia think has ‘had no joys’ and not experienced love?

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The older generation

‘Over-strict old men’

44
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Where is the colloquial double negative?

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‘Ne… nemo’ litotes?

45
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What is stylistic on lines 7-8?

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‘Meus’ instead of ‘my man’ is ‘lovers’ language

46
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What does ‘peccasse’ normally refer to?

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Extra-marital sex

47
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What does she mean by ‘put on a face for respectability’?

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Model their features on hers and she will be a role model

Put on a grave look

48
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What has Sulpicia done to the phrase about composing faces for respectability?

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She has added ‘famae’ to an idiomatic phrase against it’s normal idiom

49
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How did Tränkle interpret the case of ‘famae’?

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Predicative dative

50
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What does ‘cum digno digna’ recall?

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Idioms

51
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What is a cycle poet?

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A recurring period of time in which certain events or phenomena occur and reach completion or repeat themselves in a regular sequence

52
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How is the last line representing a cycle poem?

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‘Digno digna’ stimulates cycle poetry in poem 3.12 lines 9-10

53
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Where is there a euphemism?

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‘Esse cum aliquo’

54
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What sort of statement is the line about reporting her joys to those deprived and those saying they have no joy?

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Indirect statement

55
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What could the indirect statement show?

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She is concerned about what other people are saying

56
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Where is there enjambment?

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‘Exsoluit’?

‘Taedet’

57
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What is the effect of enjambment of ‘taedet’?

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Emphasises how fed up she is

58
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Where was line 7 thought to be from?

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Propertius

59
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Where does word positioning reinforce meaning?

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‘Mea’ and ‘sua’ are at opposite ends of the same sentence to show how far apart they are

60
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Where is there tmesis? Why?

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‘Quam… ante’ for scansion or fractitious effect

61
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Which ‘dignum’ on the last line refers to Sulpicia?

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‘Digna’

62
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What does the penultimate line suggest about her?

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She now has a good reputation after a previously bad one

63
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What are Sulpicia’s main thoughts?

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Her reputation and her love

64
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What shows the importance of love to Sulpicia?

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Venus mentioned twice at the beginning to show the importance of love

65
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What sort of love is she talking about keeping quiet?

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A less-established love

66
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What does the idea of her lap suggest?

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Intimacy

67
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What do the promises suggest?

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Commitment

68
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What is the concept of Venus promising Sulpicia?

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Love poetry is honouring Venus so she owes Sulpicia something

69
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What does Sulpicia mean by ‘worthy’?

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Not out of her league and vice versa

70
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In referring to worthiness and using specifically two of the same word with different endings (polyptoton of ‘digna’?) what does this show?

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The equality of sexual freedom

71
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If reputation is important to Sulpicia, what do we question?

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Her control

72
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What is thought to be the build up to this poem?

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Sulpicia and Cerinthus quarrel, he protests that he does love her and she is convinced so writes this poem

73
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Which verb is hard to tell if it is past or present tense?

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‘Venit’

74
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What sort of construction is ‘pudori, mihi’?

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Double dative construction

75
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Who is ‘illum’?

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Cerinthus

76
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Why is Venus known as Cytherea?

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She was born on the island of Cytherea

77
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Who are the Camenae?

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Italian goddesses associated with music and were invoked like when Greek poets call upon the Muses

78
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What does Sulpicia have camenis?

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They are personifying her songs

79
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Which line is almost a golden line? Why almost?

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3 but the central word is a pronoun not a verb

80
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Where does word order shape meaning?

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‘Deposuitque’ is literally between ‘nostrum’ and ‘sinum’

81
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Who does ‘nostrum’ refer to?

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Sulpicia only

82
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What is confusing about ‘sinus’?

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Is it literal or figurative?

83
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What is ‘narret, dicetur’?

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Mixed conditional

84
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Who is ‘meus’?

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Cerinthus

85
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Why did she not write ‘meus puer’?

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Refers to a slave which is not what she wants to say

86
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Which line has strong negation? Is this litotes or reinforcement?

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  1. Litotes?
87
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What case is ‘famae’?

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Dative

88
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What type of verb is ‘ferar’ more likely to be than future indicative?

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Subjunctive

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