Mors Nulli Parcit
Mors fera, mors nequam, mors nulli parcit et aequam
Dat cunctis legem, miscens cum paupere regem.
Source: Florilegium Gottingense (ed. Voigt), 110. Meter: Dactylic Hexameter. Note the rhymes: nequam-aequam and legem-regem.
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:
nequam: worthless, good for nothing
aequus -a -um: equal; aequē, equally
cum: with (prep. + abl.); when, since, although (conjunction + subj.)
cūnctus -a -um: entire all together
do dare dedī datum: give
et: and
ferus -a -um: wild, fierce; fera: wild beast
lēx lēgis: f. law
mīsceo -ēre mīscuī mīxtum: mix
mors mortis f.: death
nūllus -a -um: not any, no one
parco -ere pepercī: spare, be sparing of (+ dat.)
pauper -eris: poor, lowly
rēx, rēgis m.: king
