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Sulpicia, Carmina Omnia (ed. Anne Mahoney), poem 1 (search)
y follows 4: Sulpicia and Cerinthus quarrel, he protests that he really does love her, and she, convinced, writes this poem. venit: Present or perfect? How do you know? pudori, mihi: This is the "double dative" construction. Prose equivalent: Amor est qualis, ut fama eum texisse mihi magis pudori sit quam alicui nudasse. illum: Emphatic, he, the man she loves. We will learn in poem 2 that his name is Cerinthus. Cytherea: Venus has this name because she was born on the island of Cythera. Camenis: The Camenae were Italian goddesses (or perhaps nymphs) associated with music. Roman poets sometimes invoked them in contexts in which Greek poets could call upon the Muses. The most famous example is the beginning of the translation of the Odyssey by Livius Andronicus: Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum (fr. 1), corresponding to Homer's a)/ndra moi e)/nnepe, *Mou=sa, polu/tropon (1.1). Sulpicia has Camenis rather than a Camenis because she is personifying her songs: they ar