LATIN IV

Lyric Poetry

Catullus 3

Vocabulary

Commit the following words, and their principal parts, to memory:

1)lugeo

2)venustus

3)passer

4)deliciae

5)oculus

6) mellitus

7)norat

8) gremium

9) circumsilio

10) domina

11) pipio

12) tenebricosum

13) male sit

14) Orcus

15) aufero

16) misellus

17) opera

18) fleo

19) turidulus

20) Rubeo

21) ocellus

Questions

1. Identify the rhetorical device used in lines 3-4.
2. Oculis suis: What is the case and what is the construction
3. Illius: to whom does this word refer?
4. What literary device is deployed in lines 11-12? What is the effect?
5. Whom does the poet address in this poem?
6. In what person does the poet refer to his girlfriend?
7. Are the language and diction of the poem appropriate to the theme or subject matter? Explain your answer.
8. Comment on any striking use of sound effects in this poem.