It’s a marvelously expressive section you’re doing, and Vergil’s manipulation of the meter contributes enormously to that. It articulates itself, and virtually scans itself.ĭon’t divorce the meter from the sense. It falls neatly into two, breaking at the caesura in both rhythm and sense.
AENEID SCANNED HOW TO
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. 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).
AENEID SCANNED PDF
Once you’ve reached the caesura, your problems are as good as over. This is a new development from the scansion project: plain text (no scansion) and pdf versions of the Aeneid. (Hopefully you realized that quis, as the first syllable, must be long, = quibus, dative.) inferretque des Lati, genus unde Latnum, Albnque patrs, atque altae moenia Rmae. v superum saevae memorem Innis ob ram multa quoque et bell passus, dum conderet urbem, 5. So: quis ant(e) ora patrum: there’s the caesura, after patrum, right where it should be. ltora, multum ille et terrs iacttus et alt. A syllable is long if it contains a long vowel or a diphthong: Ae-n. (That’s within the third foot, not directly in front of it and it and not directly following it.) The process of deciding which syllables are long and which are short is known as scansion. 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. 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.
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