Of course you're right. It's been some years since I dealed with Latin metric, I only remembered that Lesbia's last syllable elided with the atque, and if Draco'd kept the "Harry" intact it would be all right with the foot. :-))
I wonder, reading it aloud and pronouncing the "at" in "atque" the English way, it would make our Harry a Harriet. Oops. But I don't know how English speaking readers do pronounce Latin, so this was just a guess. :-))
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Date: 2009-12-25 10:02 am (UTC)It's been some years since I dealed with Latin metric, I only remembered that Lesbia's last syllable elided with the atque, and if Draco'd kept the "Harry" intact it would be all right with the foot. :-))
I wonder, reading it aloud and pronouncing the "at" in "atque" the English way, it would make our Harry a Harriet. Oops. But I don't know how English speaking readers do pronounce Latin, so this was just a guess. :-))