Qualis Pater, Talis Filius
Est herus ut servus; sequitur quoque filia matrem;
Ut pater est, talis filius esse solet.
Source: Anton Moker (1540-1605), Decalogus Metricus. Meter: Elegiac.
The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There is only one word in this poem that is not on the DCC list:
The master is (est herus) as his servant (ut servus); the daugher also (filia quoque) follows her mother (sequitur matrem); as the father is (ut pater est), such usually (talis solet) is the son (esse filius).
herus (herī m, m.): master, owner
filia -ae f.; filius -ī m.: daughter; son
filia -ae f.; filius -ī m.: daughter; son
māter mātris f.: mother
pater patris m.: father, ancestor
quoque: also, too
sequor sequī secūtus sum: follow
servus -ī m.: slave
soleō -ēre -uī -itum: be accustomed
sum, esse, fuī: be, exist
tālis tale: such
ut, uti: as (+ indic.); so that, with the result that (+ subj.)
