Give this information to each of the 10 selections below, from Livy's History, or Catullus, Poems: (1) context: author and text (abbreviate Liv. Hist., or Cat., Poe.); the speaker, if applicable; general situation of quote; chapter or line numbers are not required. (2) significance: importance in analysis, as per lectures, journals, discussions. (6 points) Be brief but specific. Answer in no more than a few, well-chosen words, for each part. Use one line-space for context (cont.) and one line-space for significance (signif.), as arranged on this document. 1) There, alone before the king and threatened by the king's men, he was more to be feared than he himself was afraid. "I am a Roman citizen!" he shouted boldly to the Etruscans, and he thrust his hand into the fire. cont.> signif.> 2) Grim silence and speechless grief so overwhelmed the minds of all that they could not decide what they should leave behind and what they should take with them; already they could hear the crash of buildings being destroyed. cont.> signif.> 3) In my eyes he seems like a god's co-equal—who face to face calmly watches and hears you. When I see you, my tongue goes torpid, fire lances my side, my ears ring. cont.> signif.> 4) But these thoughts were interrupted by the ancestral evil that had beset Numitor and Amulius—desire for kingship. From quite a harmless beginning, an abominable conflict arose. cont.> signif.> 5) Fortune has unjustly taken you from me; here now, before your silent ashes, I offer these final gifts, soaked with weeping. cont.> signif.> 6) "Didn't your anger fall away from you as you crossed the boundary? Because your wife and mother and children and gods are within those walls?" cont.> signif.> 7) Because of his actions he was given the name 'Superbus': he refused to bury his father-in-law, he walked around with a body-guard, his rule had to be protected by people's fear of him, and he refused to consult the Senate on all matters. cont.> signif.> 8) "My darling Acme, if I don't love you madly, if I am not quite, quite resolved to be constant all my lifetime—may I meet up solo with a green-eyed lion!" cont.> signif.> 9) Bitch, wicked bitch. Who'll now admire you for your looks? Whom will you love now? But I will hang tough!) cont.> signif.> 10) Negotiations then began to restore harmony: the plebeians should have their own elected magistrates who would be sacrosanct. cont.> signif.> 11) Give me a thousand, then a hundred, then a thousand more, a second hundred, so that we lose count, and no enemy can hex us knowing the final sum! cont.> signif.>

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