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Epitaph to claudia, key - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 'hospes' - direct address used to grab the readers attention
      - 'dico' - simple word, therefore accessible to most going past and therefore the writers intention is for more people to stop.
      - 'asta' and 'perlege' - imperatives - commanding you to stop and therefore causing more people to read it through
- - - - polyptoton of nomen and nominarunt further emphasises the importance of her as she has a name and for women's names to be mentioned like such in this time period was rare
- - - - 'natos' as the 1st word in the line shows promotion of birth and children this was a key roman concept
- - - - domum - promotion as women in the home was a key concept
      - fecit. dixi. abi - 3 verbs show she is a very active wife which is what a good roman wife would be.
      - abi - cyclical starts and rends with an imperative
- - - - 'haud pulchrum'- litotes emphasising the beauty of the wife by describing the tomb with a negative even though it is a beautiful tomb
      - 'pulchrum pulchrae' - polyptoton of 'pulchr' meaning beautiful shows/emphasises the beauty of the wife even further
      - 'haud pulchrum pulchrae feminae' - chiasmus noun adjective adjective noun shows the contrast of beauty between Claudia and the tomb
- - - - repetition of terra with 2 different prepositions shows contrast.
      - the sub terra also highlights the high infant mortality rates
- - - - polyptoton of suum and suo further emphasises the deep love she had for him
      - 'suum' - she
      - dilexit - loved
      - 'maritum' - husband
      - suo - with her ---> it is in the ablative
      - corde - heart
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