Unit 1: Teacher's Choice — Latin Prose

Catullus and Horace

Who are the two poets that central Unit 1?

Pietas (duty), Virtus (virtue), Fides (loyalty)

What values are explored throughout Unit 1?

Lesbia

Catullus’s lover (Clodia Metelli), symbolizing passionate but unstable love.

Passionate love

What does Catullus 5 (“Vivamus, mea Lesbia”) celebrate?

Catullus 7

Quaeris quot mihi basiationes: Uses hyperbolic imagery of “countless kisses” to express limitless love.

Catullus 85

Odi et amo: The ultimate paradox of love and hate in two short lines — emotional intensity distilled into perfection

Amor

What is love or passion in Latin?

Odi

What is hate in Latin?

Basium

What is kiss in latin?

Fides

What is faith in Latin?

Cupidus

This means desirous and passionate.

Poem 3

Mourning Lesbia’s sparrow (Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque): Humor and affection intertwined with grief.

Poem 101

Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus: A solemn elegy for his dead brother; highlights pietas and enduring love.

Poem 12

A playful piece about a stolen napkin; reflects Roman wit and friendship.

Vita

What is life in Latin?

Sapientia

What is wisdom in Latin?

Aurea Mediocritas

What is golden mean in Latin?

Seize the day

What does carpe diem mean in Latin?

1.5 Horace: Political and Moral Odes

These odes praise Augustus for restoring peace and moral order after civil war.

Imperium

What is rule or power in latin?

Maecenas

In Odes and Epistles dedicated to ____, Horace expresses gratitude not as a servant but as a friend.

satire

Horace employs gentle ____ to expose human folly which are greed, vanity, and hypocrisy.

Joke

What does oicus mean?

Pride

What does superbia mean?

Restraint

What does moderatio mean?

Immortality

Horace presents poetry as a means of achieving _____ and contributing to Rome’s cultural renewal.

Eternity

What does aeternitas mean?

Odes 2.16

Freedom through simplicity.

Odes 3.1–3.4

The wise man as self-sufficient and calm.

Odes 1.5 (Pyrrha Ode)

Love’s instability and deception.

Odes 3.9

Mature reflection on past romance.

Death

What is the meaning of mors?

Fate

What is the meaning of fatum?

The Art of Poetry

What is the meaning of Horace’s Ars Poetica?