General question -- how does the presence of -que on the end of a word affect where the stress falls? (I understand how it will affect the word in terms of scanning it as a long/short syllable; but I'm also interested in looking at how/when meter and the natural accentuation of a word coincide, or fail to.)
For example, just taking the famous:
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
And looking at it as prose for a moment, not poetry -- which syllable of virumque would the accent fall on?
For example, just taking the famous:
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
And looking at it as prose for a moment, not poetry -- which syllable of virumque would the accent fall on?