Questions tagged [scansion]

Rebeginner here (I studied Latin decades ago at school). I was just wondering whether there were any sources where you can find some Latin classical poetry texts with scansion added by people who know. I have searched but found nothing. Or failing…

I was looking over some practice tests and came across this question: What is the scansion of the first four feet of "Atque haec impressō gemuit miseranda cubīlī" Based on my knowledge, I got At / qu(e) haec / imp / res / ... "At", "imp", and "res"…

I'm not able to figure out what meter this is in this poem by Petronius. In Schmelling's unparalleled commentary on the work he merely says: Four lines of Sotadean verse (used for obscenities) sung by a cinaedus This metre is also used at 132.8…

I don't recognize the meter for the first part of this poem found in the Satyricon. I have scanned it as follows. The rest of the poem however seems to be in tetrameters as is shown at this website http://www.pedecerto.eu/public/scansioni/query - …