![]() It falls neatly into two, breaking at the caesura in both rhythm and sense. Once you learn how to read hexameters properly, this particular line will not seem a problematic one at all, more an exemplary one. You can go back and mark the longs and shorts if you must, That’s it, you’ve done it, you’re home dry, you’ve read the line metrically. In front of it we have Troiae, two long syllables, giving Troiae sub moenibus altae “beneath the walls of lofty Troy”, a self-contained phrase with typical word order. (Note the word accents: sub MOEniibus ALtae, enhancing the clausular feel). “sub moenibus altae” is the clausula, the closing cadence. Once you’ve reached the caesura, your problems are as good as over. (Hopefully you realized that quis, as the first syllable, must be long, = quibus, dative.) So: quis ant(e) ora patrum: there’s the caesura, after patrum, right where it should be. (That’s within the third foot, not directly in front of it and it and not directly following it.) The trick is to aim for the main caesura, here, as usual, in the 3rd foot. Then continue on to lines you have not previously scanned. Read aloud a dozen or more scanned lines until you have the hexameter rhythm fixed in your head and it feels almost natural. But I’d urge you to get away from laborious syllable-by-syllable scanning of hexameters ASAP, and to learn to read the verses metrically line by line. About $13 of that will go to support Medecins Sans Frontieres (the rest to Lulu).Quis ante ora patrum Troiae sub moenibus altisĭear Mark, Aetos has taken care of your problem with the first syllable of patrum, which has to be short, otherwise the line would not scan. You can buy a paperback version of this from Lulu for $20. You can browse the directory of texts here. Of course, only a monster would want to read something like jubet uenientis/es… jubet venientes), no scansion, double spaced for scansion practice: pdf With intervocalic i as j, intervocalic u as v, and 3rd declension i-stem accusative plural ending -es (e.g.With intervocalic i as i, intervocalic u as u, and 3rd declension i-stem accusative plural ending -is (e.g.With intervocalic i as i, intervocalic u as v, and 3rd declension i-stem accusative plural ending -is (e.g. ![]() ![]() With intervocalic i as j, intervocalic u as v, and 3rd declension i-stem accusative plural ending -is (e.g.If the text files don’t display properly in your browser, right click to download them. Note that the pdfs do not lend themselves to copy/paste: use the plain text versions for that. I’ve laboriously corrected macrons and scansion for this text, so these versions should be 99.9% good and usable for teaching (feedback always welcome, of course). This is a new development from the scansion project: plain text (no scansion) and pdf versions of the Aeneid. Warning: Undefined array key "automatic_follow" in /home/hypotact/public_html/wp-content/plugins/social-media-feather/synved-social/synved-social-setup.php on line 931 ![]()
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