Retrograde verses on composing verse University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/OSWALD.Retro.Vers Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Retrograde verses on composing verse
Centum concito sic qui nouit condere uersus nullo crimine commaculatos, ordine gratos, sensu denique confertos et cursibus aptos – laudis munera dat dictanti scansio lucens: Virgilianus hic dicetur maxime uates. ingeniosis ars hec paret nescia mismet: experientis sensum exercet sepius ipsam, doctilogorum nam socium dat doctificando. istos texuit Osuuoldus, qui est nescius artis; tantum nomine cognoscit hanc nescius actu. ob hoc cernuus omnipotentem deprecor orans idem quatinus haud omittat criminis ergo perpetuali infaustum subdi segnitiei. mentem tangere is dignetur pneumate sancto prudens utpote prudens dicar nomine statim; concopulari necnon doctis quiuero post hinc. lectos cernere qui dignaris, corrige, uersus, radens noxia uatis, delens crimina noxe: restituentur perpetualia premia facto! uatis gloria stat rectori maxima digne. uersa uertice iosum scandens perlege susum.