Embers of the Ancient Flame: Latin Love Poetry Selections from Catullus, Horace, and Ovid

ades o Hymenaee ALLITERATION ANAPHORA āre ārī arma Asclepiadean atque ātus ātus sum āvī Bacchus Baroque Music Catullus 45 Catullus 51 CHIASMUS Classical Clodia comp Couplet This poem Cupid Cyrene dactylic dactylic hexameter deponent verb dicit Elegiac Couplet epic ēre eris girl Greek harenae Hendecasyllabics HORACE ODES Horace's Odes Hymen Hymen ades Hymen o Hymenaee īre ISBN itus iussive subjunctive īvī kisses Latin latus Lesbia Licymniae LITOTES longa love poetry lover Lydia lyric Maecenas manus Meter METONYMY mihi multa Nape Note noun nulla nunc opus ōris Ovid OVID AMORES Ovid's Oxford University Press pharetra poet prep pres puella puer quae quam questus quid quis quod reference Roman Rome sacred Sapphic Sappho Sappho 31 semper spondee subjunctive sunt superstes syllables tabellae tablets tibi Veneris Venus viro vita vocative word