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Question 1

fidem adquireret

Answer 1

citizens don’t believe he stayed in Rome for patriotic reasons

Question 2

publicis locis

Answer 2

emphatic position - abuse of communal areas

Question 3

struere conviva… urbe… uti

Answer 3

chiastic

Question 4

struere… uti

Answer 4

historic infinitives - quickens pace and conveys N’s immorality spiralling out of control

Question 5

luxu famaque

Answer 5

almost synonymous (wantonness and notoriety)

Question 6

ut exemplum

Answer 6

sparing the reader

Question 7

stagno Agrippae

Answer 7

Agrippa engineered Lake for public enjoyment

Tigellinus engineers private display of degeneracy for irregular pleasures

Question 8

juxtaposition of N’s desire to go east and this account of an eastern-like orgy

Answer 8

subliminally turns Nero into a foreign pervert who subverts Roman standards of civilisation

Question 9

navium… naves

Answer 9

polyptoton - emphasises the diverse uses to which they were put

Question 10

exoleti

Answer 10

highly derogatory

Question 11

per aetates et scientiam libidinum

Answer 11

objectification of usually respectable men

Question 12

inlustribus feminis

Answer 12

disintegration of Roman morals regarding the ideal of noble women possessing piety, chastity and virtue

Question 13

scorta visebantur

Answer 13

total inversion of proper female conduct - whores on show, noble women hidden away

Question 14

consonare cantu et luminibus clarescere

Answer 14

chiastic

Question 15

licita atque inlicita

Answer 15

oxymoron - everything Nero does he befouls, even otherwise acceptable acts are made shameful

Question 16

foedatus… flagitii

Answer 16

alliteration of distaste

Question 17

illo

Answer 17

adds scorn and implies infamy

Question 18

grege

Answer 18

animalistic acts conducted by animals

not worthy of humanity, let alone Rome

Question 19

Pythagorae

Answer 19

Greek name, connotations of effeminacy, homosexuality and loose morality

Question 20

solemnium conigiorum

Answer 20

event mocks sacred rite of marriage by use of technical terms for real marriage

Question 21

denupsisset

Answer 21

verb used specifically for woman wedding a man, Nero is the passive female - everything natural and normal is inverted

Question 22

inditum imperatori flammeum

Answer 22

title inserted between conveys the disgrace N brings to his office and the distortion of the ceremony of wedlock

Question 23

dos et genialis torus et faces nuptiales

Answer 23

polysyndeton

Question 24

cuncta spectata

Answer 24

by sparing us the details it makes them all the more horrific

cuncta - no modesty