Tibullus 1.1 Lines 41-60 Notes

Question 1

What does ‘non ego’ contrast with?

Answer 1

‘Hic ego’

Question 2

What is the connection in terms of wealth?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Who does Tibullus start being?

Answer 3

Soldier we know he was

Question 4

Why does Tibullus sound despairing?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

How does ‘condita’ relate to the harvest?

Answer 5

Put up harvest in storage barns

Question 6

What does line 43 show?

Answer 6

The poet searched for quiet and customary

Question 7

What does line 43 echo?

Answer 7

Catullus’ poem of the return of Sirmio

Question 8

What techniques are used with ‘satis est’?

Answer 8

Repetition, partial chiasmus, anastrophe and caesura

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Highlights the litany of reconciliation and desire for small crops

Question 10

What is the underlying meaning of ‘membra levare’?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What would be unfamiliar sheets to Tibullus?

Answer 11

The bed of a wealthy man or soldier

Question 12

What type of symbolism is on lines 45-46?

Answer 12

Nature

Question 13

What is wind suggestive of in Tibullus?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is suggestive of ‘immites’?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Wind

Question 16

Dominam is what style?

Answer 16

Elegiac

Question 17

What compromises ‘quam iuvat’?

Answer 17

‘Si licet’

Question 18

What does the phrase ‘cubantem… continuisse’ reveal?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Which verbs keeps the verbal texture of the poem taut?

Answer 19

‘Teneo’ and ‘pono’

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Wishful thinking

Question 21

What does water symbolise?

Answer 21

Instability and coldness

Question 22

What are lines 45-48 similar with? How?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What does the inner fire counteract?

Answer 23

Outside chill

Question 24

How is ‘fuderit’ Tibullan wordplay?

Answer 24

Unusual for wind or anything to pour something frozen

Question 25

What is significant about using the phrase 'somnos sequi'?

Answer 25

He is actively pursuing something that is passive

Question 26

Line 49 reminisces which other lines?

Answer 26

1-6

Question 27

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

Answer 27

An elegiac compared to a pastoral interlude

Question 28

Which phrase is wishful thinking on line 50?

Answer 28

Hic mihi contingat

Question 29

What idea is presented in line 50?

Answer 29

Reaching one's own goal through effort

Question 30

What emphasises the 'smaragdus'?

Answer 30

'Que'

Question 31

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

Answer 31

'auri' is genitive with 'quantum'

Question 32

What ideas are presented with 'aurum'?

Answer 32

Linguistically on a journey but geographically east

Question 33

What could the plural of 'nostras vias' show?

Answer 33

Foreshadow Messalla's entrance

Question 34

What vaguely anticipates the apostrophe of Delia?

Answer 34

'Ulla'

Question 35

Who is Tibullus' friend and patron?

Answer 35

Messalla

Question 36

What is the only excuse for warfare?

Answer 36

Military necessity, not greed so Messalla is justly rich

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Vestibulum as a mark of acheivement

Question 38

What is the difference between Messalla's house and Delia's house?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Why does Tibullus have no freedom to wander afield?

Answer 39

He is captive of a beautiful girl

Question 40

How is 'domina' used in a double sense?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

What are 'retinent' and 'vinctum'?

Answer 41

Amatory ambiguities

Question 42

What does 'vinctum' pick up?

Answer 42

'Vincla' further on

Question 43

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

Answer 43

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

Question 44

What does the hardness of the door compliment?

Answer 44

The mistress 'dura'

Question 45

What does 'ante fores' echo?

Answer 45

Line 16

Question 46

What does 'ante fores' mark?

Answer 46

The transition from rural dream to hardened elegiac realities

Question 47

'Laudes' refers to what?

Answer 47

The praise bestowed upon a successful soldier

Question 48

What could be a pseudonym for Tibullus' mistress, Delia?

Answer 48

Artemis- diana

Question 49

What does 'dum' suggest?

Answer 49

Clauses of provisions

Question 50

What are we taken back into on line 58?

Answer 50

Subjunctives of hope instead pf indicatives of assumed fulfilment

Question 51

What spurs Tibullus' ambition?

Answer 51

Love of Delia and love of home

Question 52

What is significant about 'segnis inersque'?

Answer 52

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

Question 53

What would we expect in prose from line 58?

Answer 53

'Ut' to follow 'quaeso'

Question 54

What is an elegiac commonplace?

Answer 54

Love and death combination

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Virgil's georgics when Orpheus sings of his lost Eurydice