Virent ova! Viret perna!

One doesn't get enough opportunities to pratice Latin these days unless you're transcribing the Pope's masses into the regional vernacular. So, when Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. offer up a new rendering of Doctor Seuss' classic Green Eggs and Ham in Latin, you have to be tempted.

Instead of literally translating the material, the authors have taken the spirit of Seussian whimsey on a trip through the way-back machine and put the text of the story into Latin trochaic verse. So, you know, it would read well from a food seller's stall in the Rome marketplace.

"Mihi placent, O Pincerna!
"Virent ova! Viret perna!
"Dapem posthac non arcebo.
"Gratum tibi me praebebo."

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