Ovid, Roman Sanitation, Deponents and Passives

What is Ovid's main message to lovers? Be...

(a)  

What does Ovid compare lovers who need persistent wearing down to?

tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra iuvenci, tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.

• Stubborn young bulls

• Unyielding horses

• Unyielding horses

• Horses

What poetic technique is used here to emphasise the need for persistence to get your lover in time?

tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra iuvenci, tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.

• Repetition

• Chiasmus

• Parallel phrasing

• Emphatic positioning

si non accipiet scriptum inlectumque remittet (line 1)

What does this imaginary woman do here?

• She reads the lover's letter and sends it back

• She doesn't read the lover's letters and sends it back

• She reads the lover's letter and keeps it

• She doesn't read the lover's letter and keeps it anyway

si non accipiet scriptum inlectumque remittet (line 1)

What technique is used here to mimic the send coming back unsent?

• Parallel phrasing

• Chiasmus

• Emphatic positioning

• Hyperbole

tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi (line 3): how does Ovid describe the reins?

• stubborn

• harsh

• unyielding

• suffering

dura tamen molli saxa cavantur aqua (line 8)

Link what is described to the correct Latin

• rock

• saxa

• are hollowed out

• cavantur

• water

• aqua

• hard

• molli

• soft

• dura

Why is it surprising that rocks are hollowed out by water?

dura tamen molli saxa cavantur aqua

• Rocks are hard but water is soft

• Rocks are soft but water is hard

• Rocks and water are hard

Put the translation in the correct order:

Penelopen ipsam, persta modo, tempore vinces:

capta vides sero Pergama, capta tamen.

• Penelope herself

• only stand firm

• in time you will win

• but captured nonetheless

• you see Troy captured late

What poems talk about men chasing after women regardless of whether the women is interested in them?

• Ovid, Advice to a rejected lover

• Catullus 5

• Catullus 8

• Horace, Finished with Love

• Martial, The Power of Love