Thanks heaps for your help, but I've basically got quantity down. Does anyone have a list of rules on how Latin words are stressed?Įdit - Found a page on rules for quantity, elision, and most importantly, stress. I'm sorry if I've misused terms here any help will be very much appreciated.Įdit - Thanks everyone for your help, but my main problem is stress rather than quantity. (I'm in my final year of secondary school and these exams are roughly equivalent to HSC or IB or SAT or A-levels or whatever bureaucrats in your country call matriculation - probably a bit easier than IB, actually.) The editions I'm using are Keith MacLennan's, and Gould & Whiteley's, as well as a Collins dictionary - all have sections on scansion but they're not very helpful on stress. The exam is in less than forty-eight hours so I'm freaking out about my inability to distinguish between trochees and spondees and going hysterical at hypermetric elision.

Those already familiar with the Aeneid will enjoy the convenience of ready reference not only to grammar, but also to explanations of mythological and historical allusions, scansion, and interpretation.Could anyone refer me to a good and simple online guide to scansion of dactylic hexameter? I'm mostly alright with quantity (except for last syllables of lines) but quite inept with stress/accent/ictus/etc.Ĭontext, should you care: The text I'm studying is Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, upon which half my VCE Latin exam is based. Beginning teachers or those unfamiliar with the Aeneid will find the thorough notes invaluable for understanding the grammar and context and being prepared to answer students’ questions. Notes on critical word study appear as well.Ward Briggs, Jr., in his preface to this reprint describes this book as “the most thoroughly and reliably parsed text of Vergil in existence.” Having this wealth of information at hand in one volume, conveniently arranged on the same page with the Latin line, provides an efficient way to review passages and to prepare material for class.For example, in line 17, gentibus is parsed as dative plural, and the vocabulary form of the word and its origin from geno, “I beget,” is given then the note gives its use as “dative of indirect object after regnum esse” and refers to the page numbers in three grammars to explain dative of personal interest, after which the notes continue with an explanation of gens: “here means nation other meanings are race offspring, house, made up of families, such as the gens Iulia at Rome.”At the end of the book is the complete scansion of Book I, which, the author reminds us in the preface, also provides opportunity for sight translation.Teachers will find many ways to use this book as both a reference and a resource in introducing their students to Vergilian style and meter, Book 1 of the Aeneid, and Latin grammar. The author describes the footnotes as “both explanatory and critical.” In addition to the parsing of each word and reference to Latin grammars when needed, the notes explain mythological and historical allusions. Below these lines are thorough notes, with each Latin word completely parsed, and with a commentary referring to grammars as well as explanations of interpretation and meaning. On the side is a more fluent translation of the two or three lines that are typically handled on each page. Below each line of Latin is an interlinear translation, in the order of the Latin words. While Latin teachers are familiar with the meaning of the term “parsed,” some may not realize that it comes directly from the Latin pars orationis, to mean literally “part of speech.” Educators today can use this book as a ready reference and perhaps even learn something new from the extensive notes.The author envisioned the book as a resource for both beginning and experienced Latin teachers:both those rusty in Latin who nevertheless find themselves called upon to teach Vergil without much time for preparation and also those who are ‘up’ in Vergil, but still may benefit greatly, at the first, by having at their elbows a model for teaching and drilling which, like this, sets forth to the most minute detail each step in the parsing and the translation of every word in the text, and indicates to the eye clearly and correctly the scansion of every lineThe Latin text is presented in divisions of feet, with caesurae and elisions.

Pars Orationis by Vicki WineBolchazy-Carducci Publishers has reprinted Archibald Maclardy’s Parsed Vergil, Book I, printed in 18.

Scansion of aeneid