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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:56:06 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Caris Amicis: My AP Vergil class has found a line from Bk II, 763, that we > cannot fit into dactylic hexameter. > > It reads: praedam adservabant. Huc undique Troia gaza > Any advice? Remember that vowel + final m is elided before initial vowel or h, and that Troia here is an adjective and not a noun: the line scans (| = division between feet, || caesura) prae-d(am)ad|ser-va|bant. || huc | un-di-que | Tro-i-a | ga-za spondee, spondee, spondee, dactyl, dactyl, and final spondee with short syllable in place of long. Leofranc Holford-Strevens > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You > can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub