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| Author | Message |   | | Posted on Fri Nov 14, 2008 03:03:37 |    |  
  |   |  | Not only applying to this poem but to the website as a whole. Do you think you can add a vocabulary section? If thats too much to ask forgive me |   |  
  |   | | Posted at Sun Feb 26, 2012 21:32:23 |   Quote |  
  |   |  | Is the person who scans qualified to do so? Or could this scansion all be wrong. |   |  
  |   | | Posted at Tue Dec 19, 2017 14:25:09 |   Quote |  
  |   |  | Quote: |   |  |  |    | Is the person who scans qualified to do so? Or could this scansion all be wrong. |  
 
  In general, yes. In the last line, the 2nd syllable of dabis is mistakenly marked as long; however, the neoteric poets (and Lucretius) employed the licence of marking a syllable ending in -s as short.   |   |  
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