146 - 147 - 148 Qui Amat, Uritur Nescio quid sit amor: nec amo, nec amor, nec amavi, Sed scio, si quis amat, uritur igne gravi. Source: Philosophia Patrum (ed. Wegeler), 672. Meter: Elegiac. Note the end-line rhyme: amavi-gravi. 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: I don't know (nescio) what love is (quid sit amor): I don't love (nec amo), I'm not loved (nec amor), nor have I loved (nec amavi), but I know (sed scio), is someone loves (si quis amat) that person is burned (uritur) with a serious fire (igne gravi). ūrō, ūrere: burn, inflame, scorch aliquis -quae -quod: some, any; si quis, si quid: anyone who, anything that amo -āre: to love amor -ōris m.: love gravis -e: heavy īgnis -is m.: fire neque, nec: and not, nor; neque . . . neque, neither . . . nor nescio -scīre: not know, be ignorant qui, quae, quod: who, which, what; quis quid: who? what? which? scio -īre -īvī/-iī -ītum: know sed: but sī: if sum, esse, fuī: be, exist (image source)