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[6-8] The three particular questions are given in a conversational asyndeton. The first concerns the general character of the province, and is carried on with specification (cf. Catul. 2.8n.) by the second, which concerns its particular condition, and by the third, which narrows the discussion down to the real point of interest, the influence of the province upon the purse of Catullus.


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