dispereo=

sunt totidem mea= "my (circumstances) are exactly the same"

deprecor, deprecari deprecatus sum= to wish someone away, try to get rid of, rebuke.

assidue=continually, all the time

In this poem, Catullus reads Lesbia's behavior in a paradoxical or contradictory way. What is the paradoxical proposition in the first couplet and how does he prove his assertion in the second?

1) In poem 83, Catullus was addressing Lesbia's husband. Whom is he addressing here?

2) What is the new element that was not present in poem 83?

3) What may be wrong with the poet's reasoning? Why is it a dangerous msitake for anyone to make?

4) For what reasosn might any twolovers verbally abuse each other as Catullus and Lesbia seem tobe doing?