DACTYLIC HEXAMETER ILLUSTRATED AND RECITED                           

                First 11 Lines of The Aeneid illustrating Dactylic Hexameter  :  To hear the same passage in Dactylic Hexameter, click the link below. 

                                Link also contains recitation of Dryden's English couplet of the same passage and notes on the Introduction.

                    Wendell Clausen and Kathleen Coleman (Harvard)       Aeneid: Book 1 Intro