Here is today's Rhyming Distich, and here are some more posts with Rhyming Distichs. This one comes from the Florilegium Gottingense edited by Voigt.
Dirumpit saccum sus, postquam grana comedit;
Sicque suum pravus benefactorem cito laedit.
Here is the vocabulary:
dirumpo - shatter, burst, split
saccus - sack, bag
sus - pig, sow
postquam - after, afterwards
granum - grain, seed
comedo - eat, eat up, consume
sic - thus, so, in this way
que-enclitic - and
suus - reflexive possessive adjective
pravus - vicious, perverse, bad
benefactor - benefactor
citus - swift, quick; cito: quickly
laedo - strike, injure, wound
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