Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
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Poem 5 ("Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus") is one of Catullus’s most famous Latin love poems, celebrating passionate devotion to his beloved Lesbia while dismissing the judgments of others.
All labels observed (1)
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| Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus) canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus) Context triple: [Catullus, hasWork, Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)]
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Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria is a didactic elegiac poem by the Roman poet Ovid that offers witty, often controversial advice on the arts of love and seduction in ancient Rome.
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Imitations of Horace
Imitations of Horace is a series of poetic adaptations by Alexander Pope that recast the Roman poet Horace’s satires and epistles into the social and political context of 18th-century England.
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C.
Aegimius (fragmentary poem)
Aegimius is a fragmentary ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that survives only in scattered quotations and is known for its mythological and genealogical content.
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Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
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Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a didactic poem by the Roman poet Horace that offers influential guidance on the art and principles of poetic composition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
Target entity description: Poem 5 ("Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus") is one of Catullus’s most famous Latin love poems, celebrating passionate devotion to his beloved Lesbia while dismissing the judgments of others.
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A.
Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria is a didactic elegiac poem by the Roman poet Ovid that offers witty, often controversial advice on the arts of love and seduction in ancient Rome.
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B.
Imitations of Horace
Imitations of Horace is a series of poetic adaptations by Alexander Pope that recast the Roman poet Horace’s satires and epistles into the social and political context of 18th-century England.
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C.
Aegimius (fragmentary poem)
Aegimius is a fragmentary ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that survives only in scattered quotations and is known for its mythological and genealogical content.
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D.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
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E.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a didactic poem by the Roman poet Horace that offers influential guidance on the art and principles of poetic composition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin lyric poem
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love poem ⓘ |
| addressedToCharacter | Lesbia (pseudonym for a woman, often identified with Clodia Metelli) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| addressee | Lesbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Catullus 5
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attitudeTowardCritics | dismissive ⓘ |
| author | Gaius Valerius Catullus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralImage | innumerable kisses ⓘ |
| collection | Carmina of Catullus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | one of Catullus’s most famous poems ⓘ |
| emotionalTone |
defiant
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passionate ⓘ urgent ⓘ |
| famousLine |
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda ⓘ |
| focus |
passionate devotion to Lesbia
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rejection of public moral judgment ⓘ |
| genre | elegiac love poetry ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
European love lyric tradition
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Renaissance Latin poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ modern love poetry ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
enjoyment of present pleasures
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inevitability of death ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
alliteration
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anaphora ⓘ antithesis ⓘ hyperbole ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Neoteric poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Late Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | hendecasyllabic verse ⓘ |
| motif |
counting kisses
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envy of onlookers ⓘ shortness of life ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first person singular ⓘ |
| openingLine | Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Carmen 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalAffinity | Epicureanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rhetoricalMode | persuasion of beloved ⓘ |
| setting | imagined intimate space between poet and Lesbia ⓘ |
| textualTradition | preserved in the Verona manuscript of Catullus ⓘ |
| theme |
carpe diem
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defiance of social opinion ⓘ love ⓘ mortality ⓘ |
| workOf | Catullus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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