Medical Riddle University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Medic.Aenig Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Medical Riddle
Dic duo que faciunt pronomina nomina cunctis; omnia dic que sunt uerbi, que silliba signet: quid mininga, cimus, crassis? quid sterea, colis? quid ris quidue farinx, nistis? quid glossa, geosis? quid flebs, hota, nefron, cistis, thessis, anathossis? quid trix, derma, pisis, neutis, hacmen, diliponta, auxitis, gemoni, tacui, satrex, cacohesis? ipsa quidem sed non eadem que te ipsa nec ipsa? sinon exposueris, indonatus abibis!