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The power of love by Martial, summary of text, key, English translation -…

- - - - se - her
      - demittit - absorb
      - modo - sometimes
      - Averno - Lake Avernus
- - - - antiquis - old
      - cedens - yielding
      - nec - not
      - Laevinia - Laevinia
      - casta - chastity
      - Sabinis - Sabine
      - Casta as the first word promotes the keyword chastity
      - by separating antiquis and Sabinis it allows martial to juxtapose Laevinia being loyal not yielding chaste compared to the Sabine women of old
- - - - tristior - more austere
      - ipsa - herself
      - tetrico - stern
      - viro - man/husband
      - quamvis - although
      - at - and
      - Tristior is a comparative adjective - this is used to show that she herself is stricter than her husband in this case not chastely but more like penelope
- - - - modo - sometimes
      - Lucrino - Lucrine lake
      - dum - while
- - - - penelope - Penelope
      - Helene - Helen
      - abit - but left
      - venit - came/arrived
      - Penelope - was the perfect roman wife for her loyalty to Odysseus even when he was on his travels. Helen was the opposite. and known to have many affairs and was unfaithful
- - - - secuta - following
      - relicto - by leaving
      - iuvenemque - young man
      - coniuge - her husband - subj.
- - - - Baianis - at Baiae
      - saepe - often
      - dum - while
      - fovetur - pampered
      - et - and
      - aquis - by waters
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