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Does anyone know where I can find the latin text of Vergil's Aeneid with macrons (long marks)

Asked by flash74686 (478points) May 23rd, 2012

For my latin class, my teacher gave us handouts to scan of book 4 of the Aeneid, and I lost mine. She doesn’t have any more, so she asked me to print it out (lines 450–504 specifically) and scan it. No problem, except I couldn’t find anything with macrons. I’m not quite at the level of scanning without them, so I tried all sorts of searches (“latin text aeneid macrons,” so on and so forth) but no luck. I thought I might as well ask here. Maybe someone knows of a website that doesn’t come up on google. I would appreciate any help!

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bolwerk's avatar

I don’t know if those lines correspond to the ones in this document, but try this. It’s from The Gutenberg Project, which has a long history of putting books online for free.

seekingwolf's avatar

Try looking at Perseus Project database. Google it. You can look up works from all Greek and Latin literature.

Wish I could scan it for you, Haha. Vergil is my homeboy. If you can’t find anything with macrons, remember the dipthong rules and determine the long marks by sound. Good luck.

lillycoyote's avatar

Does it absolutely have to be lines 450–504? “This is closest I’ve gotten so far and man. is it frustrating! I thought I finally found it on Google books, a 161 page excerpt, with the darn macrons, and the Book 4 excerpt stops at line 387 and the then the darn thing doesn’t pick up again until Book 6, Line 16.

Arrggh!

The only other thing I can suggest is for you too look on some of these forum, where other people seem to be looking for Latin text with macrons online. I don’t think there are a lot of them.

Try here

and here.

when I did a search for

online Latin text “with macrons”

it seemed to get me mostly to sites where other people were asking about where to find online latin texts with macrons because they weren’t having any better luck than you.

ratboy's avatar

The Vergil Project—select “Natural vowel quantities” under “Inline Textual Aid.”

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