SCOPA: THE BEST PASTIME (Elegiac Couplet)
Castra per incedens in collibus impiger altis
   cum senibus scopam ludere laetus eram

Walking hurriedly through the castle on the high hills,
   I was happily playing scopa with old men.

METRICAL HAIKU

HOW DO YOU SCAN “SCOPA”?
Tu “scōpa” dicis,
et alii “scopa” sed
“scōpā,” “scopāve”

You say “scōpa,”
and others say “scopa,” but also
“scōpā” or “scopā.”

OVER THE WALL
Muro stupemus;
sum ebria cum proavis,
transcendimusque

We are amazed by the wall;
drunk with my ancestors,
I transcend the wall.

GOLDEN LINE

VACATION IN GAUL
Gallica formosa cognoscam gaudia catta
Might I get to know Gallic pleasures with a pretty cat.

COMPLETE THE COUPLET

HISPANIC ADVICE
Mexicana mea horto tunc mulier mihi dixit:
   (Si pulli nolunt ulla vorare, bibant!)

My Mexican woman then said to me in the garden:
   (If the chickens won’t eat, let them drink!)

VARIA

DANCING SATYR (Elegiac Couplet)
nunc debacchemur, saltemus forsan, amici?
   Te demergebas. Cur bibis, o Satyre?

Now let us revel, may we perhaps dance, friends?
   You drowned yourself. Why do you drink, oh Satyr?

TO FOREIGNERS (Hendecasyllables)
Impiger patriam relinque nostram
Relinquish our land hastily!