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38. Read lines 11-15 (aloud if possible) or listen to the audio on the CSCP website.39. Study the vocabulary.40. Read lines 11-15 (or listen to the audio) again.41. One way for a writer to get his work known was to read it in public to an invited audience; this event was knownas a recitatio. Pliny frequently read his work at such gatherings and conscientiously attended the recitationesof other people, grumbling in one letter about the disgraceful folk who turn up late and sneak out before the end.42. Study one use of the word idem (feminine eadem):Sextus optimus pictor est, idemque athleta notissimus.Sextus is an excellent painter, and the same man is a very famous athlete.Or, more naturally: Sextus is an excellent painter, and also a very famous athlete.Besides organising slaves to bring news from court, what does Calpurnia also (eadem) do, as described in thewords in proximo sedet (line 12)? When does she do this? (si quando in lines 11-12 can be translated aseither if ever or whenever.)43. Find the participle in line 12 that describes Calpurnia when she attends one of Pliny’s recitationes. How is shehidden, and why?44. What does laudes meas (line 13) mean?(a) the audience’s praise of Pliny(b) Pliny’s praise of his wifeHow does Calpurnia react to the audience’s response? Which words show how emotionally involved she is?45. What does she sing (lines 13-14)? Notice the genitive singular of versus in the glossary; what declension doesit belong to? (This should help you to check the case of versus in line 13; if puzzled, see the Cambridge LatinGrammar, page 11, paragraph 4.)46. What else does she do to his verses (line 14)? What case is cithara?47. Pliny’s poetry, to judge from his occasional quotation of it in his letters, was not much good.48. Who does not teach Calpurnia to sing and play the lyre (lines 14-15)? Who, or what, does teach her (line 15)?What comment does Pliny add?49. Translate lines 11-15.WJEC Level 2 Latin Literature Unit 9541 Love and Marriage 87