Flashcards in LIT CRIT Deck (84)
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cognita res meritam vati per Achaidas urbes
attulerat famam nomenque erat auguris ingens.
-meritam- does pentheus deserve to die, does bacchus deserve to be worshipped
-vati/auguris-pleonasm
-cognita-sets the theme knowing
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spernit Echionides tamen hunc ex omnibus unus,
contemptor superum Pentheus, praesagaque ridet
-spernit.contemptor- emphatic positioning verbs hatred
-framed with the addition of "ridet" very negative
-ex omnibus unus- antithesis, hyperbole, homoioteleuton
-patronymic, Aneas=Anchisiades
Echion was last alive after the "sown men of dragons teeth" civil strife
3
verba senis tenebrasque et cladem lucis ademptae
obicit. ille movens albentia tempora canis
-albentia/canis- pleonasm
-sibilance brings the prophecy more memorable homoioteleuton
-direct address
-obicit, emphatic positioning
- "...que et"
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“quam felix esses, si tu quoque luminis huius
orbus” ait “fieres, ne Bacchica sacra videres.
-sibilance, powerfull
-direct address
-orbus, emphatic positiong
-first line is spondaic, power
5
namque dies aderit, quam non procul auguror esse,
qua novus huc veniat, proles Semeleia, Liber;
Liber at end
-tri colon,
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quem nisi templorum fueris dignatus honore,
mille lacer spargere locis et sanguine silvas
honore- pentheus importance
-graphic detail, emphatic on mille
-all these related words are polyptoton
-lacer spargere, juxtaposition
-"et, que, que (next lines) polysyndeton
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foedabis matremque tuam matrisque sorores.
eveniet; neque enim dignabere numen honore,
-tricolone with previous line polysyndeton
importance of being killed by familly
-"matrem..matris" +tuam
-foedabis exageration, spondaic
- eveniet's position is emphatic
-Ino and Autnonoe
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meque sub his tenebris nimium vidisse quereris.”
talia dicentem proturbat Echione natus.
n sounds makes his coming seem terrible foreboding
-neque and meque
-proturbat is in the historic present, paradoxical
-echione natus
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talia dicentem proturbat Echione natus.
dicta fides sequitur responsaque vatis aguntur:
wegweg
10
Liber adest festisque fremunt ululatibus agri;
turba ruit mixtaeque viris matresque nurusque
wg4wg
11
vulgusque proceresque ignota ad sacra feruntur. 530
“quis furor, anguigenae, proles Mavortia, vestras
w4g4wg
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attonuit mentes?” Pentheus ait:
“aerane tantum
4gw4g
13
aere repulsa valent et adunco tibia cornu
et magicae fraudes,
4f4fw
14
ut, quos non bellicus ensis,
non tuba terruerit, non strictis agmina telis,
wfewf4wf
15
femineae voces et mota insania vino
obscenique greges et inania tympana vincant?
rhthr
16
vosne, senes, mirer, qui longa per aequora vecti
hac Tyron, hac profugos posuistis sede penates,
rthrth
17
nunc sinitis sine Marte capi? vosne, acrior aetas, 540
propiorque meae, quos arma tenere,
thrth
18
non thyrsos, galeaque tegi, non fronde, decebat?
este, precor, memores, qua sitis stirpe creati,
thrth
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illiusque animos, qui multos perdidit unus,
sumite serpentis.
rthtr
20
pro fontibus ille lacuque 545
interiit: at vos pro fama vincite vestra.
yrh
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ille dedit leto fortes: vos pellite molles
et patrium retinete decus.
grh
22
si fata vetabant
stare diu Thebas, utinam tormenta virique
egwg
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moenia diruerent, ferrumque ignisque sonarent.
essemus miseri sine crimine, sorsque querenda,
erg
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non celanda foret, lacrimaeque pudore carerent;
at nunc a puero Thebae capientur inermi,
egreg
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quem neque bella iuvant nec tela nec usus equorum,
sed madidus murra crinis mollesque coronae 555
rgeg
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purpuraque et pictis intextum vestibus aurum,
quem quidem ego actutum (modo vos absistite) cogam
SDG
27
adsumptumque patrem commentaque sacra fateri.
an satis Acrisio est animi, contemnere vanum
SAFSF
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numen et Argolicas venienti claudere portas:
Penthea terrebit cum totis advena Thebis?
WFQ
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ite citi' (famulis hoc imperat), 'ite ducemque
attrahite huc vinctum! iussis mora segnis abesto!'
aegw
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