Contemptus Mundi
Felicem vitam vis vivere? Spernito vitam.
Vivit enim misere, cui sua vita placet.
CONTEMPT OF THE WORLDWilt live an happy life? Thy Life contemn:He wretched lives, whose life un’t him’s a Jem.
The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are only two words in this poem that are not on the DCC list:
contempus, contemptūs m. - contempt, scorn
sperno -ere, sprēvī, sprētum - scorn, reject, despise
enim: for, indeed
fēlīx -īcis: lucky; adv. fēlīciter
miser misera miserum: wretched, pitiable
mundus -ī m.: world, universe, heavens
placeo -ēre placuī placitum: please
qui, quae, quod: who, which, what; quis quid: who? what? which?
suus -a -um: his own, her own, its own
vīta -ae f.: life
vīvo -ere vīxī victum: live
volo velle voluī: wish, be willing
