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What is Catullus 62 about?

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It is a song to be sung at a wedding to the god Hymenaeus the god of weddings. Each verse is sung alternately by gender.

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Who sings first?

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Men

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Why should the men start singing?

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  1. evening is here, young men arise
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How has evening arrived?

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  1. … Evening is barely
  2. raising his long awaited light from Olympus at last
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What should men leave to start singing instead?

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  1. Now it is time to leave the fat tables.
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What will happen once everyone has left the fat tables?

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Now the bride will come, now the wedding song will be said

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What do they sing at the end of every 5 line phrase?

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Hymen, O Hymenaeus, Hymen you’re here, O Hymenaeus!

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How did the girls get the girls attention to fight the boys?

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  1. Girls do you see the boys? Arise against them
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What triggered the girls to sing against the boys?

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  1. The bringer of night is surely showing the Etnan fires
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Why are the boys going to lose against the girls in line 9?

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It certainly is so, do you see how quickly they jump?
They haven’t even jumped up hastily

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What will the boys sing? According to the girls.

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They will sing something worth defeating

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Why do the boys struggle according to the boys?

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There is no easy victory for us comrades
Look the girls are searching for what they have learnt

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Why are the girls so impressive?

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They do not learn in vain, they have something worth remembering

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How do the girls make sure they remember well?

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No wonder, they work deep with their whole mind

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How have the boys treated their minds compared to the girls?

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We have separated our minds and ears in different directions

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What will the boys’ separated minds achieve?

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Therefore we’ll be beaten justly, victory loves effort

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How do the boys get the other boys’ attention?

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So now at least turn your minds

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Why should the boys pay attention?

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Now they [the girls] are beginning to speak, now it will be right to respond

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How do the girls describe Hesperus?

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Hesperus, what crueler fire is carried in the sky?

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Why is Hesperus so cruel?

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You who can tear a daughter from her mother’ s embrace
To tear away a daughter clinging to her mother’s embrace

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Why does Hesperus take the daughter from the mother?

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To give the pure girl to a blazing youth

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Whom is Hesperus compared to?

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What do enemies do more cruelly in a captured city?

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How do the boys describe Hesperus?

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Hesperus what nicer fire shines in the sky?

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Why is Hesperus nice?

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You who strengthen arranged marriages with your flame
Which men and parents have promised beforehand

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How do people ensure Hesperus has blessed the marriage?
but not united before your flame has arisen
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Why is a marriage so good?
What is given by the Gods more desirable than the happy hour?
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What has Hesperus done to the girls? L32
Hesperus, friends has stolen one of us
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What is missing after L32?
Misses rest of female verse and start of male verse
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What happens when Hesperus arrives?
For at your arrival the guard is always awake
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Why must the guard be awake?
Thieves hide in the night whom you often catch
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What is Hesperus called when he catches the thieves?
While returning under your changed name of Eous
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How are girls critiquing Hesperus?
But girls like to criticise with fake complaint
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Why should the girls not criticise Hesperus?
What then, if they criticise the one they desire with a quiet mind?
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What do the girls use as a symbol of virginity?
As a flower is born in a secret walled garden,
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What is significant about the flower?
Unknown to the flock, torn up by no plough
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Who takes care of the flower?
Which the wind caresses, the sun strengthens, the rain brings up
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How is the secret flower treated?
Many boys desired it, many girls desired it
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What happens when the flower is plucked?
But when it is plucked by a gentle nail it dies
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How is the dead flower treated?
No boys desired it, no girls desired it
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How is the flower similar to the woman?
In the same way, a virgin while she remained untouched, she is dear to her family
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What happens if the girl is polluted?
When she has lost her pure flower by polluting her body she does not stay pleasing to boys nor dear to girls
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What do the boys use as a symbol of virginity?
As a widowed vine is born in a bare field
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What is a widowed vine?
One not held up by a stick
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What is bad about the widowed vine?
It never raises itself never produces a soft grape,
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What does the widowed vine do instead of producing a grape?
But bending its gentle body down with downward weight
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What does the widowed vine do instead of producing a grape?
But bending its gentle body down with downward weight
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What does the widowed vine do when it touches the ground?
Now, now it touches the topmost shoot to its root.
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What happens to the widowed vine?
No farmers cultivate, no oxen
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What happens if the vine is joined?
But if by chance she is joined to a husband elm, many farmers cultivate it, many oxen
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Why is the girl like the vine?
So as long as the girl remains untouched, she grows uncultivated
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How does the girl get cultivated?
When the right time she gains an equal marriage
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How does a cultivated girl get treated?
She is more dear to her husband and less despised by her father
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Who sings Line 60 onwards?
Both genders
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What should the bride do?
And you, girl, don't fight with such a husband
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Why shouldn't the bride fight with her husband?
It is not right to fight, with the one your father gave you
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Who gave the girl away?
Your father, with your mother, whom you must obey
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Who does the girl's virginity belong to?
Your virginity is not all yours, [but] partly your parents'
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Who does her virginity belong to?
A third part is from your father, a third part is to your mother
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What part of virginity does the girl have?
Only a third is yours: don't fight with the two people
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Why shouldn't the girl fight with the two people who own her virginity?
[they] who have given their rights to their son in law together with the dowry
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What is Vesper?
The evening star a.k.a. Venus
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surgere iam tempus, iam pinguis linquere mensas iam veniet virgo, iam dicetur hymenaeus stylistic features
"iam" Tetralonic anaphora. Hymenause the god of weddings used as a metonym for wedding
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Who is Hymenaeus?
God of weddings
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How are the girls verse similar to the boys?
They have similar structure
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{Keep an eye out for lots of alliteration}
:)
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sic certest: viden... exsiluere
Ellision
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noc... nec.. nos...
Three line alliteration
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mentes... mentes
Repetion
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penitus
Deep = idiom
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ardenti castam
Oxymoron
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qui natam possis complexu avellere matris Complexu matris retinetntem avellerre natam
Sort of chiasmus
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{Keep an eye our for rhetorical questions}
:)
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How do you describe the similarity in verses?
In parallel
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qui... quae.. nec... quid...
Threee starting with q
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qui pepigere viri pepigerunt
Polyptoton
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extuli ardor
Comical homonym to sex "Your flame has arisen
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Flos
Flower as a symbol for virginity
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Multi illum puerit, multae
Polyptoton of multae
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Nulli illum puerit, nullae
Polyptoton of nullae
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Multi illum puerit, multae Nulli illum puerit, nullae
Similar = repetiton
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ut vidua
Mimics girls verse about the flower, but this time with wine
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numquam... numquam..
anaphora
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vitis
vine = similar for male genitailia/female virginity
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iam iam
Repetition
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iam iam
repetition
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nulli coluere iuvenci multi coluere iuvenci
Reptition = parallelelismic chiasmus
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sic virgo
tautology
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magis et minus
juxtaposition
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pars patrest parte parentum
polyptoton

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