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I will catch up on these blog posts!!

First, we have some Catullan rhetoric:

Alliteration:  "pessimi poetae"   poem 14, line 23

Aporia:  "Quid est, Catulle? Quid moraris emori?"   poem 52, line 1

Apostrophe: "o Veneres Cupidinesque"   poem 3, line 1

Chiasmus:  "Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,

                  nox est perpetua una dormienda."   poem 5, lines 5-6

Hyperbole: the entire poem 5, but also more specifically: 

                  "Da mi basia mille, deinde centum;

                   dein mille altera, dein secunda centum;

                   deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum."

Synchysis:  "dulcia nocturnae portans vestigia rixae"    poem 66, line 13

And now for some elegiac couplets!

#3

Nec quia / te nos/tra spe/rem prece / posse mo/veri

alloquor: / adver/so // movimus / ista de/o!

-**/ --/ --/ -**/ -**/ --

-**/ --/ -//  -**/ -**/ -

(Thanks Brian for not making me figure out how I was going to put this on the computer)

Translation:  

I do not speak because I was hoping to be able to move you with our prayers:

We moved those to an adverse god!