probably
LLL L L L L S S LSSL L
praed(am ad)-| -serva- |-bant. huc | undique | Troia | gaza
granted - quite strange - the 5th foot is definitely a dactyl - Troia can be
scanned this way
the 4th foot is the one that is more bothersome, but
Dear Denise D-Henry,
I suggest that Troia be read as a trisyllabic, i.e., Tro - i - a.
Mario A. Di Cesare
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
Ratio legendi GAZA est longa-breuis (id est trochaeus), propterea quod nomen
est recto casu numero singulari, ut demonstratur a uerbis TROIA/ et ab ...
EREPTA(764).
Grato animo
Carmine Iannicelli
Scrive Neal, Marla [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The pattern I get when I scan it is s-s-s-d-d-s. The 'dam'
