CATULLUS V Flashcards
(24 cards)
Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
Let us live, my Lesbia, and les us love,
rumoresque senum severiorum
and let us judge all the rumors of rather harsh old men
omnes unius aestimemus assis!
at only a penny!
soles occidere et redire possunt:
suns are able to rise and set (fall and return)
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux
when once short light falls,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
one everlasting night must be slept by us.
da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
give me 1,000 kisses, then 100,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
then another 1,000, then a second 100,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
then continually another 1,000, then 100.
dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,
then, when we will have made many thousands (of kisses),
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,
we will scramble them, lest we know (so that we may not know),
aut ne quis malus invidere possit,
or lest someone evil is able to cast an evil eye (curse) upon
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.
when he knows that there is so much of kisses.
figure of speech in line 1
ABBA (chiasmus)
figure of speech of Lesbia atque amemus (line 1)
ellision
case number and reason of ‘unius assis’
gen s - genitive of value
what is ‘est dormienda’
gerundive - passive periphrastic (takes dative of agent)
form of mi in ‘da mi basia’
syncope (mihi)
dein……dein….. =
anaphora
what is ‘dein’
syncope (deinde)
figure of speech of ‘cum milia multa fecerimus’
cum clause (temporal?)
‘sciamus’ (line 11)
negative purpose clause
‘sciat esse basiorum’ (line 13)
cum clause (temporal?)
‘possit’ (line 12)
pres subjunctive
