{"id":213,"date":"2008-01-07T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=213"},"modified":"2008-01-07T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T15:57:54","slug":"question-about-orthography-and-metre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Question about Orthography &#8212; and Metre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re going to give our students texts in which <strong>v<\/strong> is used for consonantal <strong>u<\/strong>, shouldn&#8217;t the enclitic conjunction be <strong>-qve<\/strong>, not <strong>-que<\/strong>? The latter confuses some students in their scansion exercises, since they try to take the <strong>u<\/strong> as a vowel. For that matter, shouldn&#8217;t <strong>desueta<\/strong> in <em>Aeneid<\/em> 2.509 be <strong>desveta<\/strong>? It&#8217;s scanned as a trisyllable, and <strong>ue<\/strong> is not a diphthong, so the <strong>u<\/strong> must be a consonant here. For the opposite problem, I assume that Horace&#8217;s trisyllabic forests in <em>Epode<\/em> 13.2 should be spelled <strong>siluae<\/strong>, not <strong>silvae<\/strong>, even in elementary texts, to show that the word is an anapest, not a spondee. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelatinlibrary.com\/horace\/ep.shtml\">Latin Library<\/a> does precisely that. I should check my other Horaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re going to give our students texts in which v is used for consonantal u, shouldn&#8217;t the enclitic conjunction be -qve, not -que? The latter confuses some students in their scansion exercises, since they try to take the u &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}