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Pliny uses the chiasmus of ‘festinat illus unde alii fugiunt’ which translates as 'he hurried to that place from which others were fleeing'. The sentence is almost comical, describing how Pliny the Elder ...

The soldier is wounded by the enemy

This line is translated as 'will behold huge mounds of slaughtered Rutulians'. It is interesting as it is a silver line and an example of chiasmus. The words 'ingentes (huge).....acervos (mounds)' frame t...

This poem is written in elegiac couplets, as was customary for Latin love poetry, where the first line of a couplet has six feet and the second has five. This is unlike dactylic hexameter, where both line...