8. Study Questions Copy
Widespread grief at Rome.
The use of a tricolon plus asyndeton.
Public business was suspended.
They rejoiced and offered sacrifice.
Line 41: the tricolon gives reasons why we, the reader, should sympathise with Agrippina.
4. Give examples of the following stylistic features:
asyndeton in lines 50-1
Tricolon in line 50-1
Lines 54-55: repetition of ‘ante’ at the beginning of each clause
Line 53: ‘permissam provinciam’
Lines 57-8: ‘non abstinebant’
