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Tibullus 1.1 Lines 41-60 Notes Flashcards

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1
Q

What does ‘non ego’ contrast with?

A

‘Hic ego’

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2
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What is the connection in terms of wealth?

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Generic riches of opening lines and then particular wealth of Tibullus’ forbears

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3
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Who does Tibullus start being?

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Soldier we know he was

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4
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Why does Tibullus sound despairing?

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Reiteration of the poet’s willingness to accept his present reduced status

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5
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How does ‘condita’ relate to the harvest?

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Put up harvest in storage barns

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6
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What does line 43 show?

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The poet searched for quiet and customary

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7
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What does line 43 echo?

A

Catullus’ poem of the return of Sirmio

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8
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What techniques are used with ‘satis est’?

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Repetition, partial chiasmus, anastrophe and caesura

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9
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What is the effect of all the techniques with ‘satis est’?

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Highlights the litany of reconciliation and desire for small crops

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10
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What is the underlying meaning of ‘membra levare’?

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The soldier-wanderer had taken a great weight from his shoulders literally and metaphorically

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11
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What would be unfamiliar sheets to Tibullus?

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The bed of a wealthy man or soldier

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12
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What type of symbolism is on lines 45-46?

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Nature

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13
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What is wind suggestive of in Tibullus?

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Seafaring, danger, greed of commercialism and violence of military life, instability of love, life’s acquisitions and personal beauty

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14
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What is suggestive of ‘immites’?

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Has no pity, like the art of the person who invented the sword

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15
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What else is a menace to paradise like wolves and theives?

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Wind

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16
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Dominam is what style?

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Elegiac

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17
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What compromises ‘quam iuvat’?

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‘Si licet’

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18
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What does the phrase ‘cubantem… continuisse’ reveal?

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Tibullus’ yearning for love and quiet combined and ‘contentus’

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19
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Which verbs keeps the verbal texture of the poem taut?

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‘Teneo’ and ‘pono’

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20
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What compare’s ‘tenero sinu’ with the shepherd’s position?

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Wishful thinking

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21
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What does water symbolise?

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Instability and coldness

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22
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What are lines 45-48 similar with? How?

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Lines 27-28. Moved from hot to cold, summer to winter as menace changes

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23
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What does the inner fire counteract?

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Outside chill

24
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How is ‘fuderit’ Tibullan wordplay?

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Unusual for wind or anything to pour something frozen

25
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What is significant about using the phrase ‘somnos sequi’?

A

He is actively pursuing something that is passive

26
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Line 49 reminisces which other lines?

A

1-6

27
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What does line 49 lead into compared with lines 1-6?

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An elegiac compared to a pastoral interlude

28
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Which phrase is wishful thinking on line 50?

A

Hic mihi contingat

29
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What idea is presented in line 50?

A

Reaching one’s own goal through effort

30
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What emphasises the ‘smaragdus’?

A

‘Que’

31
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What is a construction found in Tibullus only on line 51-52?

A

‘auri’ is genitive with ‘quantum’

32
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What ideas are presented with ‘aurum’?

A

Linguistically on a journey but geographically east

33
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What could the plural of ‘nostras vias’ show?

A

Foreshadow Messalla’s entrance

34
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What vaguely anticipates the apostrophe of Delia?

A

‘Ulla’

35
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Who is Tibullus’ friend and patron?

A

Messalla

36
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What is the only excuse for warfare?

A

Military necessity, not greed so Messalla is justly rich

37
Q

Where were enemy spoils placed in a Roman house? Why?

A

Vestibulum as a mark of acheivement

38
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What is the difference between Messalla’s house and Delia’s house?

A

Messalla has spoils sporting the front like a triumphal procession while Delia has Tibullus; spoils of another sort

39
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Why does Tibullus have no freedom to wander afield?

A

He is captive of a beautiful girl

40
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How is ‘domina’ used in a double sense?

A

He is a slave and a prize of love’s warfare

41
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What are ‘retinent’ and ‘vinctum’?

A

Amatory ambiguities

42
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What does ‘vinctum’ pick up?

A

‘Vincla’ further on

43
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What does it mean for Tibullus to be a slave door-keeper?

A

He is chained to his post but has no power to open the door

44
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What does the hardness of the door compliment?

A

The mistress ‘dura’

45
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What does ‘ante fores’ echo?

A

Line 16

46
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What does ‘ante fores’ mark?

A

The transition from rural dream to hardened elegiac realities

47
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‘Laudes’ refers to what?

A

The praise bestowed upon a successful soldier

48
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What could be a pseudonym for Tibullus’ mistress, Delia?

A

Artemis- diana

49
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What does ‘dum’ suggest?

A

Clauses of provisions

50
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What are we taken back into on line 58?

A

Subjunctives of hope instead pf indicatives of assumed fulfilment

51
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What spurs Tibullus’ ambition?

A

Love of Delia and love of home

52
Q

What is significant about ‘segnis inersque’?

A

Idle country living, dull city life and a lover’s free time are far apart

53
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What would we expect in prose from line 58?

A

‘Ut’ to follow ‘quaeso’

54
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What is an elegiac commonplace?

A

Love and death combination

55
Q

Where else is the idea of Delia being at Tibullus’ death bed echoed?

A

Virgil’s georgics when Orpheus sings of his lost Eurydice

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