FIGURI DE STIL ALE IUBIRII ÎN POEZIA LIRICĂ LATINĂ
Figures of speech of love in Latin lyric poetry

Summary/Abstract: This article presents figures of speech in the Latin lyrical poets’ work: metaphor, synesthesy, hyperbole, metonymy, explaining ancient and contemporary theories at the same time, that consider language a problem of expression and a problem of thinking and mental images experienced by man in the world. Greek and Latin citations, as well as structural and cognitive theories are taken up. For every author (Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Horace and Ovid), selected fragments describe the feeling of love and artistic manners of colouring it, appealing to concrete elements of the world, that are similary to the transmitted feelings. Literary motifs intermingle with linguistic data and etymological surveys, that explain the mentalities of the Roman people, from the 1st century B.Chr. to the 1st century A.D.

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