Latin Level 3, Unit 3: Reading Latin Poetry. Core vocabulary, forms, and short example sentences for this unit. Front: the Latin word or form. Back: English meaning (brief grammatical note in parentheses where useful, e.g. case or conjugation).
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- What Roman poet wrote the epic Aeneid, telling the legendary founding story of Rome?
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Virgil (Vergilius)- Arma virumque cano
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I sing of arms and the man (the opening line of the Aeneid)- What meter is used throughout Virgil's Aeneid, a standard for Latin epic poetry?
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Dactylic hexameter- What Roman poet wrote love poetry and the mythological epic Metamorphoses?
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Ovid (Ovidius)- What Roman poet is known for short, personal lyric poems, including some addressed to a woman named Lesbia?
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Catullus- Odi et amo
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I hate and I love (a famous line by Catullus)- What Roman poet wrote philosophical odes and lyric poetry, including the famous phrase 'carpe diem'?
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Horace (Horatius)- Carpe diem
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Seize the day (a famous phrase from Horace)- What term describes the rhythmic pattern of long and short syllables in Latin poetry?
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Meter- What basic metrical unit, a long-short-short or long-long pattern, structures dactylic hexameter?
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The dactyl and the spondee- What term describes a pause or break within a line of Latin verse, important for reading poetry aloud?
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A caesura- What poetic device repeats the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words, such as 'multa munera'?
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Alliteration- What poetic device describes vowel sounds echoing across nearby words?
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Assonance- What literary technique places words out of normal prose order for emphasis or meter, very common in Latin poetry?
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Hyperbaton (word order inversion)- What poetic device gives human qualities to non-human things, such as calling the sea 'angry'?
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Personification
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