Tibullus 1.1 Lines 41-60 Notes Flashcards
What does ‘non ego’ contrast with?
‘Hic ego’
What is the connection in terms of wealth?
Generic riches of opening lines and then particular wealth of Tibullus’ forbears
Who does Tibullus start being?
Soldier we know he was
Why does Tibullus sound despairing?
Reiteration of the poet’s willingness to accept his present reduced status
How does ‘condita’ relate to the harvest?
Put up harvest in storage barns
What does line 43 show?
The poet searched for quiet and customary
What does line 43 echo?
Catullus’ poem of the return of Sirmio
What techniques are used with ‘satis est’?
Repetition, partial chiasmus, anastrophe and caesura
What is the effect of all the techniques with ‘satis est’?
Highlights the litany of reconciliation and desire for small crops
What is the underlying meaning of ‘membra levare’?
The soldier-wanderer had taken a great weight from his shoulders literally and metaphorically
What would be unfamiliar sheets to Tibullus?
The bed of a wealthy man or soldier
What type of symbolism is on lines 45-46?
Nature
What is wind suggestive of in Tibullus?
Seafaring, danger, greed of commercialism and violence of military life, instability of love, life’s acquisitions and personal beauty
What is suggestive of ‘immites’?
Has no pity, like the art of the person who invented the sword
What else is a menace to paradise like wolves and theives?
Wind
Dominam is what style?
Elegiac
What compromises ‘quam iuvat’?
‘Si licet’
What does the phrase ‘cubantem… continuisse’ reveal?
Tibullus’ yearning for love and quiet combined and ‘contentus’
Which verbs keeps the verbal texture of the poem taut?
‘Teneo’ and ‘pono’
What compare’s ‘tenero sinu’ with the shepherd’s position?
Wishful thinking
What does water symbolise?
Instability and coldness
What are lines 45-48 similar with? How?
Lines 27-28. Moved from hot to cold, summer to winter as menace changes
What does the inner fire counteract?
Outside chill
How is ‘fuderit’ Tibullan wordplay?
Unusual for wind or anything to pour something frozen
What is significant about using the phrase ‘somnos sequi’?
He is actively pursuing something that is passive
Line 49 reminisces which other lines?
1-6
What does line 49 lead into compared with lines 1-6?
An elegiac compared to a pastoral interlude
Which phrase is wishful thinking on line 50?
Hic mihi contingat
What idea is presented in line 50?
Reaching one’s own goal through effort
What emphasises the ‘smaragdus’?
‘Que’
What is a construction found in Tibullus only on line 51-52?
‘auri’ is genitive with ‘quantum’
What ideas are presented with ‘aurum’?
Linguistically on a journey but geographically east
What could the plural of ‘nostras vias’ show?
Foreshadow Messalla’s entrance
What vaguely anticipates the apostrophe of Delia?
‘Ulla’
Who is Tibullus’ friend and patron?
Messalla
What is the only excuse for warfare?
Military necessity, not greed so Messalla is justly rich
Where were enemy spoils placed in a Roman house? Why?
Vestibulum as a mark of acheivement
What is the difference between Messalla’s house and Delia’s house?
Messalla has spoils sporting the front like a triumphal procession while Delia has Tibullus; spoils of another sort
Why does Tibullus have no freedom to wander afield?
He is captive of a beautiful girl
How is ‘domina’ used in a double sense?
He is a slave and a prize of love’s warfare
What are ‘retinent’ and ‘vinctum’?
Amatory ambiguities
What does ‘vinctum’ pick up?
‘Vincla’ further on
What does it mean for Tibullus to be a slave door-keeper?
He is chained to his post but has no power to open the door
What does the hardness of the door compliment?
The mistress ‘dura’
What does ‘ante fores’ echo?
Line 16
What does ‘ante fores’ mark?
The transition from rural dream to hardened elegiac realities
‘Laudes’ refers to what?
The praise bestowed upon a successful soldier
What could be a pseudonym for Tibullus’ mistress, Delia?
Artemis- diana
What does ‘dum’ suggest?
Clauses of provisions
What are we taken back into on line 58?
Subjunctives of hope instead pf indicatives of assumed fulfilment
What spurs Tibullus’ ambition?
Love of Delia and love of home
What is significant about ‘segnis inersque’?
Idle country living, dull city life and a lover’s free time are far apart
What would we expect in prose from line 58?
‘Ut’ to follow ‘quaeso’
What is an elegiac commonplace?
Love and death combination
Where else is the idea of Delia being at Tibullus’ death bed echoed?
Virgil’s georgics when Orpheus sings of his lost Eurydice
