Dactylic Hexameter Scansion Quiz 1

Short-answer quiz

Provide the correct scansion for each of the following lines of dactylic hexameter. Use the special buttons as directed: long [₋], short [◡], elision [∤], and division between the feet [ǀ]. Click the "Hint" button for the next correct symbol, but you will lose points if you do.

 
  1. Arma virumque cano, Trojae qui primus ab oris



  2. Italiam fato profugus Lavinaque venit



  3. litora, multum ille et terris jactatus et alto



  4. vi superum, saevae memorem Junonis ob iram,



  5. multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem



  6. inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum



  7. Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.



  8. Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine caeso



  9. quidve dolens regina deum tot volvere casus



  10. insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores



  11. impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?