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Tibullus 1.1 Lines 1-20 Notes Flashcards

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1
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Who does Tibullus think should be rich? Why?

A

Soldiers for withstanding the terrors and sleeplessness of military life

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In what ways does Tibullus want to be content?

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His lot will stop him wandering and will give him pleasure

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3
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Who was Pales?

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Deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock

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4
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How often were offerings and purifications made to Pales?

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Yearly

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5
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What will Pales accept offerings to be in?

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Earthenware vessels not gold

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6
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What can Tibullus not bear?

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His mistress’ weeping

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7
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What does Tibullus want?

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Quiet protection with his mistress from winter wind and rain

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8
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Who is the captive here? Why?

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Tibullus as hos girl’s slave doorkeeper

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9
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What sort of people does Tibullus think soldiering and commercialism are for?

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The greedy

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10
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What does Tibullus think they should do now while they are young?

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Make love

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11
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Which two lives does Tibullus compare?

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The ambitious, practical, political life of a Messalla and the poor, quiet, country life he aspires

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12
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What does Tibullus compare between a military and rural life?

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Motion against rest
Action against passivity
Exposure against retreat
Winter against the fireside
Summer against chill of shade and streams
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13
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What does Tibullus think a farming life is built on?

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Love

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14
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What ideas does the prospect of love conjure?

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Old age, death, excluded lover, doorposts broken

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15
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What does the ending of the poem create?

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A position halfway between abundance and poverty, ancestral wealth and limitation, war and peace, country and city and youth and age

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16
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What does Tibullus look into during this poem?

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The future

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17
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What does Tibullus describe little about?

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The present

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18
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What does Tibullus associate ‘divitias’ with?

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Ambition and competition in love

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19
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Which word does ‘divitias’ anticipate and why?

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‘Fulvo’ as ‘divitias’ has the same root as a word meaning ‘bright’. Riches are eye catching and attractive

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20
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What does ‘alius’ suggest?

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Rouses suspicion that a special instance, perhaps himself, is in the poet’s mind

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21
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What sort of statement is the first sentence?

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Impersonal

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22
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What do the subjunctives suggest?

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A prayer as well as a command

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23
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What does ‘fulvo’ do to the description?

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Points out its reality

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24
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What is a typical Tibullan device?

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Using the abstract for a concrete object ‘congerat’

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25
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What does ‘iugera’ have in common with ‘auro’?

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Means of wealth

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26
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‘Iugerum’ is more specific than…

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‘Divitias’

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27
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What is an ‘iugerum’?

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A size roughly equivalent to an acre and the amount a yoke of oxen could plough in a day

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28
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Where is there personification?

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‘Labor assiduus’

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29
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Why did Tibullus choose ‘assiduus’?

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Quasi-military overtones. The enemy is near and continuous effort is by his side.

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30
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The juxtaposition of ‘assiduus’ and ‘vicino’ emphasises what?

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The etymological pun

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31
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Why is ‘somnos’ plural here?

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With a lot of Tibullus, it emphasises the repetition of an action and adds to the generality

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32
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Where are the military metaphors in lines 3-4?

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‘Pulsa’ typically used for string or percussion instruments you might strike and ‘fugent’

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33
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What else does ‘pulsa’ show?

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A motif of heaping up and holding money but at the price of losing peace and quiet

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34
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What does the personification of ‘paupertas’ do?

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Keeps up pretense that the statement is generic

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35
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What turns the focus towards Tibullus?

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‘Me’, ‘mea’, ‘Meus’

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36
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What is the effect of mentioning the hearth and home?

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Brings it down to earth

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37
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What do the flames also represent?

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A rich man’s heap of gold

38
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What was the heart of the family home?

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The hearth and Lares altars

39
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What does ‘traducat’ hint at?

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The passivity and possible negativity gives an idea of betrayal which contrasts the positivity of ‘congerat’

40
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What does ‘vita inerti’ refer to?

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The leisurely life in the countryside

41
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What is the only thing ‘assiduus’ in the country life?

A

The fire

42
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What is confusing about ‘dum’?

A

The poet is in poverty yet he lays down conditions

43
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Is making demands seemingly strange in Tibullus?

A

Yes

44
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What sort of subjunctive is ‘seram’? What does it do to the prayer?

A

Future or optative. Makes it less definite

45
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Which word is elegist’s language?

A

‘Teneras’

46
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What is ‘the season’?

A

The right time to seed young plants

47
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What is the contrast and effect on lines 7-8?

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‘Teneras’ with ‘maturo’ suggests growth and development

48
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What does ‘rusticus’ contrast with?

A

The ordinary position of a city elegiac poet

49
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What sort if adjective is ‘facilis’?

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Passive

50
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‘Facili’ fits with the ‘vita inerti’ but what is it strange with?

A

‘Rusticus’

51
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What does ‘grandia’ do?

A

Anticipates the productivity of his seedlings which he prays for

52
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Where was Hope’s chief Roman temple?

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In the Forum Holitorium

53
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What does ‘destituat’ do?

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Continues the military metaphor in a new context as the poet-farmer needs allies to furnish his produce

54
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What does ‘frugum aceruos’ contrast?

A

The rich man’s piles of wealth

55
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The new wine is from what vintage?

A

October

56
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What does the plural of ‘musta’ suggest?

A

A series of events to make wine

57
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Which word marks a change of mood?

A

‘Veneror’

58
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Is the object of devotion stated?

A

No

59
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Which God might the stumps and weathered stone refer to?

A

Terminus, other boundary gods or a superstition

60
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Who was Terminus?

A

Boundary God

61
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What is the effect of the adjectives ‘desertus’ and ‘vetus’?

A

Takes the reader into a faraway, nostalgic world

62
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What were the crossroads?

A

Where boundary lines met was fitting to put altars

63
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What was a common offering at shrines and houses?

A

Flowers/ garlands

64
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The new year was considered as…

A

The producer of crops

65
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‘Agricolae deo’ is deliberately…

A

Vague and ‘agricola’ is the first adjectival use in Latin

66
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‘Flava’ is an epithet for…

A

The goddess of grain

67
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What is the difference between ‘flava’ and ‘fulvo’?

A

‘Fulvo’ represents acquired wealth

68
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The renewed chain of subjunctives on line 16 shows…

A

Wishful thinking

69
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Where was Ceres’ temple most likely, despite her rural connections?

A

In the city like urban poets who claim to be rustici

70
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What was the earliest type of garland to be used?

A

A crown of grain spikes

71
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What was Priapus god of?

A

Fertility (chief garden divinity)

72
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Describe Priapus’ cult

A

Centered originally at Lampascus on Hellespont and reached importance in the Alexandrian period

73
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Why was Priapus red?

A

Red used to paint statues of gods, especially on festive occasions

74
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What is the irony of ‘saeva falce’?

A

Connecting a wooden statue with a menacing weapon

75
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What does ‘ruber’ and ‘falc’ suggest?

A

Phallus

76
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Line 19 echoes which poet?

A

Virgil

77
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What is the dream that Tibullus creates in line 20?

A

An unwilling warrior who returns and remakes the impoverished land that was his ancestral acres

78
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How does Tibullus contrast Meliboeus in the Eclogues?

A

Tibullus comes from war into the country

79
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What is there a Roman love for?

A

The land and its gods

80
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What were the Lares Custodes?

A

Lares Compitales which were guardians of the crossroads and celebrated at the Compitalia

81
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Was farming respectable?

A

Yes

82
Q

How does Tibullus show he is not lazy?

A

Talks about planting tall trees and young vines himself

83
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Who put the flowers there to pray by?

A

Tibullus

84
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What case is Ceres in?

A

Vocative

85
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What does Tibullus accept?

A

He cannot do the farm work on his own. He needs help from the gods

86
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Which two words go together in line 3?

A

‘Assiduus vicino’ to show nearby and how close

87
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How is Priapus used?

A

As a scarecrow

88
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What is the contrast of using ‘assiduo’?

A

Tibullus’ constant fire and a soldier’s constant threat

89
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Who is Ceres in Roman myth?

A

Demeter

90
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Who was Demeter’s daughter?

A

Proserpina

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