 Unit 9541 ~ Theme A: otium
otium = leisure and pleasure time. There's not a lot of work here - just good times. Enjoy!
(The page numbers below refer to the Cambridge Latin Anthology, from which the extracts in this selection are taken.) |
| The pleasures of country life | Page 60 |
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| | Horace, Epodes II.1-8, 23-8 |
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| Catullus invites a friend to dinner | Page 64 |
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| A good place to find a girl | Page 66 |
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| | Ovid, Ars Amatoria I.89-100 |
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| How ordinary people enjoy a festival | Page 68 |
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| A day in the life of Pliny the Elder | Page 122 |
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| | Extracts from Pliny, Letters III.5.9-16 |
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| Ummidia Quadratilla | Page 148 |
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| | Extracts from Pliny, Letters VII.24 |
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| About the author
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| | To find out about Horace's life and works, click here. |
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| Listen to the poem
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| English Translation
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| English Translation 1| |
Excellent version of the whole poem (Epode II) that stays faithful to Horace's words; hosted by the Horace's Villa Project website.
The Anthology extract comprises lines 1-8 and 23-28; so if you read the whole original poem you'll find a twist in the tale! |
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| English Translation 2| |
Amusing loose translation of the whole of Epode II by American journalist and radio personality Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960). |
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| Analysis
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| This poem is written in a poetic form or "meter" known as iambic trimeters and dimeters (alternating).
Find out more in the section LATIN POETRY: Meters, Rhythms & Scansion on the Verse Authors page. |
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superba civium potentiorum limina
The Roman tradition of less-well-off citizens seeking the help, financial and social, of richer citizens of greater prestige - the so-called Patron-client system - is explored further in this Patronage weblink section. |
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Horace's mention of springs so soon after that of the ilex may imply that he's thinking again of his fons Bandusiae, the spring on his farm which he famously eulogises in Ode 3.13 - see the Anthology's A Country Spring.
This photo shows the so-called "Nymphaeum of the Orsini", next to Horace's villa in Licenza and, despite some Renaissance alterations, it seems to many to be the poet's much-loved Bandusiaan Spring. |
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