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A chiasmus is a literary technique where concepts or grammatical features are repeated but in reverse order. A simple way to remember it is A-B-B-A, just like the band!
For example: (Aeneid VI.102)...

The first step is not to translate straight away. First, read any information given to you about the context of the passage. Next,take the passage a sentence at a time. Find the subject usually near the b...

There are multiple correct answers to this question. The translation of 'ambulare' from Latin is 'to walk'. Appropriate answers might therefore be 'amble' (to walk slowly), or 'ambulatory' (something rela...

Echo and Narcissus is not a love story. Ovid may be known for his elegiacs on love and courtship, but it is in the Echo and Narcissus episode that his true penchant for sex, wit and amoral punishment come...

Translation: The wife of Caesar begged her husband with many prayers not to go into the senate on this day. That man however, since he feared that he would appear cowardly, decided to neglect the advice o...