Question

This figure is told to “give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred” in a poem that begins by declaring “Let us live, my [this figure], and let us love.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this figure, the likely subject of an elegiac couplet that declares “I hate and I love.” This figure is the namesake of a cycle of several carmina by her likely lover, Catullus.
ANSWER: Lesbia [accept Clodia]
[10e] Lesbia was the pseudonym used by Catullus, a poet who wrote in this language, to refer to his lover Clodia. This language was also used by Ovid.
ANSWER: Latin
[10h] Catullus was inspired by Sappho to write his poems 61 and 62 in this genre, which were written to celebrate a marriage. Edmund Spenser dedicated a poem titled for this genre to his bride Elizabeth Boyle as part of his Amoretti.
ANSWER: epithalamium [accept epithalamus; accept Epithalamion]
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