> Each verb on the first line has a "mate" on the second.
Can you clarify what a "mate" is? What determines a word's "mate"? The position on the line? Their meaning?
Can you clarify what a "mate" is? What determines a word's "mate"? The position on the line? Their meaning?
The structure we see here is x0 and y0, ...z0 / z1... y1 and x1.
These two lines are basically just Catulus' being a complete show-off. And IMO, some of Ovid's work makes Catulus look like a bit of an amateur by comparison.
Classical latin poetry is like 10% being able to write down clever ideas and 90% showing off your grasp of grammar and vocabulary such that you can pose and solve incredibly difficult linguistic puzzles. I think Sanskrit is pretty similar in this respect too.