EPIGRAM

O SCHOLA!
Quam mirabilis, O Schola, ac insula parva videris!
   Umquam homines aderant? Qualia pulchra tenes?
Quamquam fama tenet sic te notam Ciceroni,
   Nusquam scripta manent; heu, sine more locus.

O Schola, how tiny and marvelous an island you seem!
   Were ever men present? What sort of beautiful things do you hold?
Although rumor has it in such a way that you were known to Cicero,
   Nowhere do writings remain; alas, a place without a custom.

METRICAL HAIKU

CELATA
In monte pulchro
quae dea te mihi fert,
o magna nubes?

HIDDEN THINGS
On the beautiful mountain
what god brings you to me,
o great cloud?

ACCISA
alta atque magna
fama tui remanet
aedes Segestae

HAPPENINGS
tall and great
rumor of you remains
temple of Segesta

GOLDEN LINE

A NOTE TO THE POET:
Ingeniosa piger faciet non carmina vates.
A lazy bard will not write ingenious verses.

VARIA

ROSA MEA (Dactylic Hexameter)
Filia cara mihi sine curis nomine Rosae.
Continue floret mansitque ea laeta per annos.
Interea in terris Siculis adsum sine Rosa.

MY ROSE
My daughter: dear, carefree, Rosie.
She flourishes continuously, and through the years, she has endured, happy.
Meanwhile, I am without, in Sicily, my Rosie.

BACCHUS SOLUS (Elegiac Couplet)
O Liber, nimium vini sic, prave, bibisti.
   Nonne deus comites debet habere bibax?

LONELY BACCHUS
O wicked Bacchus, thus too much of the wine you have drunk.
   Surely a god given to drink ought to have companions?