Evasi flammas, ignis tormenta profugi.
Ipsa medella meo pugnat contraria fato:
Ardeo de lymphis: gelidis incendor ab undis.
Solution: Lime
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Solution: Sleep
Solution: Lime
Semper inest intus, sed raro cernitur ignis;
Intus enim latitat, sed solos prodit ad ictus;
Nec lignis ut vivat eget, nec ut occidat undis.
Solution: Flint
Quattuor aequales currunt ex arte sorores
Sic quasi certantes, cum sit labor omnibus unus;
Et prope sunt pariter nec se contingere possunt.
Solution: Wheels
Nos sumus, ad caelum quae scandimus, alta petentes,
Concordi fabrica quas unus continet ordo,
Ut simul haerentes per nos comitentur ad auras.
Solution: Stairs
Mundi magna parens, laqueo conexa tenaci,
Vincta solo plano, manibus conpressa duabus
Ducor ubique sequens et me quoque cuncta sequuntur.
Solution: Broom
Aere rigens curvo patulum conponor in orbem.
Mobilis est intus linguae crepitantis imago.
Non resono positus, motus quoque saepe resulto.
Solution: Bell
Mater erat Tellus, genitor est ipse Prometheus;
Auriculaeque regunt redimitam ventre cavato.
Dum misere cecidi, mater mea me laniavit.
Solution: Ceramic Jar
Tres olim fuimus, qui nomine iungimur uno;
Ex tribus est unus, et tres miscentur in uno;
Quisque bonus per se: melior, qui continet omnes.
Solution: Spiced Wine
Sublatum nihil est, nihil est extrinsecus auctum;
Nec tamen invenio, quicquid prius ipse reliqui.
Quod fueram, non sum; coepi, quod non eram.
Solution: Wine turned to vinegar
Nomen ovis Graecum, contentio magna dearum
Fraus iuvenis cincti, multarum cura sororum
Excidio Troiae vel bella cruenta peregi.
Solution: Apple
Nobile duco genus magni de gente Catonis.
Una mihi soror est, plures licet esse putentur.
De fumo facies, sapientia de mare nata est.
Solution: Ham
Non ego de toto mihi corpore vindico vires,
Sed capitis pugna nulli certare recuso:
Grande mihi caput est, totum quoque pondus in illo.
Solution: Hammer
Contero cuncta simul virtutis robore magno.
Una mihi cervix, capitum sed forma duorum.
Pro pedibus caput est: nam cetera corpore non sunt.
Solution: Pestle
Rubida curva capax, alienis humida guttis,
Luminibus falsis auri mentita colorem,
Dedita sudori, modico subcumbo labori.
Solution: Bronze Strigil
Per totas aedes innoxius introit ignis;
Est calor in medio magnus quem nemo veretur.
Non est nuda domus, sed nudus convenit hospes.
Solution: Bath-house
Dedita sum semper voto, non certa futuri.
Iactor in ancipites varia vertigine casus
Nunc ego maesta malis, nunc rebus laeta secundis.
Solution: A die
Terra fui primo, latebris abscondita terrae;
Nunc aliud pretium flammae nomenque dederunt,
Nec iam terra vocor, licet ex me terra paretur.
Solution: Money
Plus ego sustinui quam corpus debuit unum.
Tres animas habui, quas omnes intus habebam;
Discessere duae, sed tertia paene peregit.
Solution: Mother who had twins
Bellipotens olim, saevis metuendus in armis,
Quinque pedes habui, quod numquam nemo negavit.
Nunc mihi vix duo sunt; inopem me copia reddit.
Solution: Soldier with gout
Cernere iam fas est quod vix tibi credere fas est:
Unus inest oculus, capitum sed milia multa.
Qui quod habet vendit, quod non habet unde parabit?
Solution: One-eyed garlic seller
Inter luciferum caelum terrasque iacentes
Aera per medium docta meat arte viator.
Semita sed brevis est, pedibus nec sufficit ipsis.
Solution: Tight-rope walker
Nunc mihi iam credas, fieri quod posse negatur.
Octo tenes manibus, sed me monstrante magistro
Sublatis septem reliqui tibi sex remanebunt.
Solution: Roman numerals formed with your hands? Words?
Insidias nullas vereor de fraude latenti;
Nam deus attribuit nobis haec munera formae,
Quod me nemo movet, nisi qui prius ipse movetur.
Solution: Shadow
Virgo modesta nimis legem bene servo pudoris:
Ore procax non sum, nec sum temeraria linguae;
Ultra nolo loqui, sed do responsa loquenti.
Solution: Echo
Sponte mea veniens varias ostendo figuras.
Fingo metus vanos nullo discrimine veri.
Sed me nemo videt, nisi qui sua lumina claudit.
Solution: Sleep
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