Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 14 AIL 1317 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"O Lente, Lente Currite, Noctis Equi"
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The idea
The line is Latin, meaning run slowly, slowly, horses of the night, and it is borrowed from Ovid, where a lover wishes a night with his mistress longer. Faustus uses a line about pleasure to beg for delay of damnation, which is an allusion doing savage work.
In practice
A lover's line, begging for delay.
Where people slip
The source makes the line worse.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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