Tibullus 26

Question 1

wine

Answer 1

drunk lover

Question 2

fresh agonies

Answer 2

pain of love

Question 3

Bacchus

Answer 3

god of wine=drunk lover

Question 4

cruel guard… door is shut and firmly barred… uncomplaisant keeper’s door

Answer 4

locked out lover. Ovid cursed door keeper but tibullus curses door

Question 5

swayed by my tears

Answer 5

similar to ovid when he begged the door keeper

Question 6

do not groan

Answer 6

secret

Question 7

if I have cursed you in my insanity forgive it- let the curses fall on me

Answer 7

change in tone- like ovid

Question 8

remember now those litany-filled hours

Answer 8

spending hours trying to get in

Question 9

wreaths of flowers

Answer 9

gardlands

Question 10

Delia

Answer 10

named misstress

Question 11

and youths who attempt thresholds not tried before and girls who will unlatch a fast-barred door

Answer 11

venus+ youths

Question 12

she teaches stealth in creeping out of bed and how to place the feet with noiseless tread

Answer 12

Venus helps with secret affair

Question 13

nioseless tread

Answer 13

tip-toe

Question 14

how one may talk under a husband’s eyes with nods and with set signs speak pleasantries- but not all- those sloth has not delay’d she helps, nor night’s thick darkness made affraid

Answer 14

lovers being in each others company among others

Question 15

roaming the city in distress by night

Answer 15

seacrative

Question 16

I find no harm

Answer 16

dangers in the street

Question 17

She

Answer 17

Venus

Question 18

one may pass anywhere

Answer 18

-powerful because of love but secrative
-protected by the goddess

Question 19

sacrosanct

Answer 19

like a preist

Question 20

ambush… the chills of winter… soaking showers

Answer 20

-life of a soldier// life of a lover has to withstand changes in weather
-military language

Question 21

snaps her fingers and summons me inside

Answer 21

-idea of him being subservent to misstress
-he is being controlled

Question 22

robberies

Answer 22

bad

Question 23

he must hide the fact

Answer 23

asking witness to keep the secret

Question 24

raging sea

Answer 24

anybody who does reveal the secret will be pushed by Venus

Question 25

I learnt this through a witch's magic art

Answer 25

-witchcraft- witch/ sorceress - tibullus asking for help to win the woman

Question 26

Medea

Answer 26

helped Jason bring the Golden Fleece back from Colchis to Greece was the most famous witch of Greek mythology

Question 27

Hecate

Answer 27

an ancient goddess, usually associated with witchcraft and uncanny incidents

Question 28

she wrote a spell that you might steal his wit

Answer 28

spell to trick the husband

Question 29

chant it three times and after each time spit

Answer 29

witchcraft

Question 30

then he wont credit anything that's said

Answer 30

tricking the husband

Question 31

why trust her?

Answer 31

talking about girlfriend- can she be trusted by him

Question 32

(line 61) she

Answer 32

witch

Question 33

my prayer

Answer 33

he wants her to love him back so asks the gods

Question 34

a dusky breast fell for the dark god's rite

Answer 34

sacrifice

Question 35

arms and rapine

Answer 35

life of a soldier

Question 36

rout Cilician regiments

Answer 36

military language

Question 37

Cilician

Answer 37

Cilicia was in Asia Minor, in Tibulus' time on the frontier of the frontier of the Roman empire

Question 38

tents

Answer 38

military language

Question 39

let him be wounded in silver sheath in gold sit on a horse wondrous to behold

Answer 39

the life of the soldier isnt for him even if it does seem glamourous

Question 40

If but with Delia I may yoke my pair and on the old hill feed my flock with her; While my unwarlike arms enfold her round softly I'll sleep even on the naked ground what used to watch on a rich couch till light if tears or fruitless love outlast the night? Embroidered rugs and feather beds cant bring us sleep nor water's drowsy murmuring

Answer 40

The life he wants with Delia

Question 41

Have words of mine injured great Venus' might

Answer 41

He is not getting access

Question 42

if I were guilty I'd fall instantly

Answer 42

extream! Hopes he hasnt offended the god

Question 43

The gods will find new victims soon or late

Answer 43

Ovids early poems about victums of cupid so there is a link here

Question 44

Bowing when old to Venus' stern duress

Answer 44

ridiculous sight of the old in love

Question 45

youths and boys

Answer 45

contrast with youth

Question 46

each spits in

Answer 46

superstition