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Lorenzo Levy

SCRIBO is a creative writing contest for students of Latin . Submissions are judged on adherence to theme , connection to Roman culture , originality , and choice of vocabulary , among other categories . SCRIBO entries that receive a perfect score will be published throughout the following year . Each entry features information about the author , a picture , and their awardwinning literary piece .

Lorenzo Levy is a rising senior at BASIS Tucson North and recently completed AP Latin . Composing Latin has been one of Lorenzo ' s passions since fifth grade . In more recent years , he has taken up the endlessly fulfilling pastime of composing Latin poetry .

About the piece : This poem is a hypothetical prayer to Neptune , begging for mercy from his earthquakes which have already destroyed most of the Wonders of the Ancient World . The poem begins with praise of Neptune ' s divinity , then describes some of the wondrous monuments turned to ruins by earthquakes . In the final lines of the poem , the speaker begins to contemplate the nature of wondrous physical objects in the world and their impermanence , but then he cuts himself off and begs Neptune to refrain from destroying more monuments . The poem mostly employs the major metrical conventions and vocabulary of Golden Age dactylic hexameter poetry , especially of Vergil and Ovid .

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