Cornelius quotes a famous Latin love poet-indicating the type of poetry in this chapter. It discusses how a small love affair plays out at the Circus Maximus. The man discusses the do’s and don’ts on his date, almost making it comical.
Grammar:
There were no new grammar topics. Some things to note about poetry:
- Meter: normally pentameter or hexameter, shown by number of feet per line
- Scansion: follow specific feet, notably dactyl, spondee, iamb, trochee, anapest, and pyric
- auriga- driver
- lucerna- lamp
- basium- kiss
- cachinnus- laugh
- gremium- lap
- odium- hatred
- open- wealth
- ratio- reason
- testis- witness
- sinus- toga
- fatum- fate
- ocellus- little eye
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