Sulpicia 3.17 Notes

Question 1

Which phrase is a correction?

Answer 1

‘Pia cura’

Question 2

What does ‘pia’ mean here?

Answer 2

Faithful or dutiful

Question 3

What is a medical term used?

Answer 3

‘Calor’

Question 4

What sort of language does Sulpicia use?

Answer 4

Technical, medical and everyday language

Question 5

Is her use of ‘calor’ poetic?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

What is there a lexical field of?

Answer 6

Illness

Question 7

What style is Sulpicia’s phrasing about her weary body?

Answer 7

Prosy

Question 8

Where is there a same verse beginning as one of her other poems?

Answer 8

‘A ego’

Question 9

What else is a technical/ medical everyday phrase?

Answer 9

‘A ego’ ‘evincere’ (more elegiac style)

Question 10

Which word could be an epithet?

Answer 10

‘Morbus’

Question 11

Where is there hyperbaton?

Answer 11

‘Quoque’

Question 12

Where might there be sense clauses?

Answer 12

Before last two monosyllables of hexameter lines

Question 13

What does ‘lento pectore’ mean?

Answer 13

Slow to feel emotion. Lacking grief or sorrow for her sickness. No empathy

Question 14

Where is there enjambment?

Answer 14

‘Optarim’

Question 15

Which sounds are potent throughout?

Answer 15

Vowel sounds

Question 16

Where is the contrast?

Answer 16

She is suffering and he is relaxed

Question 17

Why did she use ‘nostra’ instead of ‘mea’?

Answer 17

Showing how it should be ‘our’ issue that she is ill. Shared suffering

Question 18

What sort of word is ‘evincere’?

Answer 18

Military term

Question 19

What creates tension?

Answer 19

Don’t know she has a fever until the end of the line to make it more extreme

Question 20

Why does she repeat ‘evincere morbos’?

Answer 20

Gives second one more emphasis. Will she recover?

Question 21

How does the word order match meaning?

Answer 21

‘Tu’ and ‘nostra’ are next to each other but on separate lines to elongate the suffering and to show they should be together

Question 22

What dependance does this show her to have?

Answer 22

Emotional dependance

Question 23

If Cerinthus doesn’t care when Sulpicia is ill what is suggested?

Answer 23

He doesn’t care when she is well

Question 24

What is Sulpicia complaining about?

Answer 24

Cerinthus’ behaviour

Question 25

Is she as angry as the previous poem?

Answer 25

No

Question 26

What case is ‘tuae puellae’?

Answer 26

Dative of reference not objective genitive though both would give the same idea

Question 27

What is unique about this poem in terms of caesuras?

Answer 27

The only poem where the caesura is the feminine in the third metron/foot and is the principle one

Question 28

What does ‘corpora’ refer to?

Answer 28

Body and limbs

Question 29

Which phrase is prosy?

Answer 29

‘Evincere morbos’

Question 30

What would be more usual instead of ‘evincere morbos’?

Answer 30

‘Curare’ or ‘sanare’

Question 31

The couplet on line 5 repeats what?

Answer 31

The preceding idea with some of the same words