02.17.2010 - By Latin Poetry Podcast
Hexamater lists
All 12 of the chief Roman gods (Ennius):
Iuno Vesta Minerva Ceres Diana Venus Mars
Mercurius Iovis Neptunus Volcanus Apollo
Ingredients of a cocktail called dodra (Ausonius):
Ius aqua mel vinum panis piper herba oleum sal
All letters of the Latin alphabet:
Duc, Zephyre exsurgens, durum cum flatibus aequor
All parts of speech:
Vae tibi lascivo, quia mox post gaudia flebis.
Or:
Vae tibi ridenti, quia mox post gaudia flebis.
For more in this vein, see the wonderful article by Harry C. Schnur, “The Factotum: Some Varieties of the Latin Hexameter,” The Classical World 53 (1960) 153-157.