Catullus 1: Hendecasyllabic Quiz

Short-answer quiz

Provide the correct scansion for each of the following lines of Catullus's poetry. 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. Cui dono lepidum novum libellum



  2. arido modo pumice expolitum?



  3. Corneli, tibi; namque tu solebas



  4. meas esse aliquid putare nugas,



  5. iam tum cum ausus es unus Italorum



  6. omne aevum tribus explicare chartis,



  7. doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis!



  8. Quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli



  9. qualecumque, quod, o patrona virgo,



  10. plus uno maneat perenne saeclo.