written sources Flashcards
finish quotation and identify author (73 cards)
‘a maddened queen was still
plotting the capital’s and empire’s ruin’ HORACE, ODES 1.37
‘With her crowd of
deeply corrupted creatures’ HORACE, ODES 1.37
‘no sign of womanish
fear at the sword’ HORACE, ODES 1.37
MA ‘enslaved
under her rule’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES, 3.11
‘Who demanded the walls of
Rome and the Senate bund to her rule, as a reward for her obscene husband’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.11
‘Spread her foul
mosquito nets over the Tarpeian rock’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.11
‘You fled
then to the wandering mouths of frightened Nile’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.11
‘deadly
monster’ HORACE, ODES 1.37
‘fortune did not
favour their oars alike’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 4.6
‘free your country
from fear… relying on you as it’s protector’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 4.6
‘sails filled
by Jupiter’s favour’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 4.6
‘their fleets ride an
unwilling sea’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 4.6
‘Caesar, our god, plots war
against rich India’ PROPERYIUS, ELEGIES 3.4
‘Men, the reward are great:
far lands prepare triumph: Tiber and Euphrates will flow to your tune’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.4
‘Do your accustomed
duty’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.4
‘Its enough for me I can
cheer them on their sacred way’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.4
‘Caesar’s axles
burdened with booty’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.4
‘Galla’s chastity?
Your morals deserve a different wife!’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.12
‘may all you greedy
ones perish equally’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.12
‘Postumus will be another
Ulysses with a wifely wonder’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.12
‘There is no greater achievement among Caesars actions
than that he stood father to our emperor’ OVID, METAMORPHOSES
‘Therefore, in order for the Emperor not to be born of
mortal seed, Caesar needed to be made a god’ OVID
‘the most courageous avenger
of his father’s murder’ OVID
‘Earth is
ruled by Augustus’ OVID