VIRGIL: Re:

[cperkel]

Troia = a dactyl

Denise Davis-Henry 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?  Denise D-Henry


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