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Author: * C. IVLIVS Caesar -
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Date: Jul 9, 2005 - 15:35
Noteworthy in the grammatical sense are the following:
A. the use of the word homuncio, which is quite rare in standard Latin literature, but which was in use in spoken Latin in the 1st century CE quite often. The word expresses the smallness of the human body and soul compared to the greatness and power of the divine.
B. the use of the futurum (i.e. future tense), auferet, after the word postquam. After postquam, in grammatically correct Latin, the plusquamperfectum (i.e. perfect tense) is always required. In spoken Latin, as in contemporary spoken modern languages, this rule is not always followed.
Hence you can see Petronius showing a case of poetry by his Satyricon character Trimalchio, in his "own" words....
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Poetry in the Satyricon: Trimalchio the Poet
Petronius
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The Poet
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