Dactylic Hexameter - the Longs and Shorts of Latin Meter

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Uploaded by on Jan 26, 2011

A primer video for learning how to tell the syllable length for Latin poetry. This video is the first step in learning about Latin poetic meter.

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  • brilliant! i get it now!

  • thank you :)

  • wow you teach this better then my teacher! It's wayy more understandable after having those marks. Wonder why my teacher didn't show us that.

  • I'm so happy, this was a wonderful video to teach me this. I couldn't understand it before but now I do. Thanks!!!

  • Thank you! It's been very useful.

    I was looking to see what the difference between the Latin quantitative meter and the qualitative meter of the later vernacular poems meant. I came across the distinction in a book I was reading. Your description helped a lot. Now I see how the Latin meter can be perceived as a quantitative formula.

  • Thank you for this video! I've been completely lost when scanning during my Latin class recently, but now I understand.

  • Nice background information for the train spotters like me. Love the dactyl thing.

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