Sulpicia 3.17 Notes Flashcards
Which phrase is a correction?
‘Pia cura’
What does ‘pia’ mean here?
Faithful or dutiful
What is a medical term used?
‘Calor’
What sort of language does Sulpicia use?
Technical, medical and everyday language
Is her use of ‘calor’ poetic?
No
What is there a lexical field of?
Illness
What style is Sulpicia’s phrasing about her weary body?
Prosy
Where is there a same verse beginning as one of her other poems?
‘A ego’
What else is a technical/ medical everyday phrase?
‘A ego’ ‘evincere’ (more elegiac style)
Which word could be an epithet?
‘Morbus’
Where is there hyperbaton?
‘Quoque’
Where might there be sense clauses?
Before last two monosyllables of hexameter lines
What does ‘lento pectore’ mean?
Slow to feel emotion. Lacking grief or sorrow for her sickness. No empathy
Where is there enjambment?
‘Optarim’
Which sounds are potent throughout?
Vowel sounds
Where is the contrast?
She is suffering and he is relaxed
Why did she use ‘nostra’ instead of ‘mea’?
Showing how it should be ‘our’ issue that she is ill. Shared suffering
What sort of word is ‘evincere’?
Military term
What creates tension?
Don’t know she has a fever until the end of the line to make it more extreme
Why does she repeat ‘evincere morbos’?
Gives second one more emphasis. Will she recover?
How does the word order match meaning?
‘Tu’ and ‘nostra’ are next to each other but on separate lines to elongate the suffering and to show they should be together
What dependance does this show her to have?
Emotional dependance
If Cerinthus doesn’t care when Sulpicia is ill what is suggested?
He doesn’t care when she is well
What is Sulpicia complaining about?
Cerinthus’ behaviour
Is she as angry as the previous poem?
No
What case is ‘tuae puellae’?
Dative of reference not objective genitive though both would give the same idea
What is unique about this poem in terms of caesuras?
The only poem where the caesura is the feminine in the third metron/foot and is the principle one
What does ‘corpora’ refer to?
Body and limbs
Which phrase is prosy?
‘Evincere morbos’
What would be more usual instead of ‘evincere morbos’?
‘Curare’ or ‘sanare’
The couplet on line 5 repeats what?
The preceding idea with some of the same words
