107 - 108 - 109 Homo Ventus Nil nisi ventus homo est, hostis sibi maximus ipse, Et totae vitae scit nihil in spatio. Source: Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Anthologia Graeca, vol. I. The poem is attributed to Palladas. Meter: Elegiac. The spirit of this poem is very much like what you find in the (anti)-wisdom book, Ecclesiastes, in the Hebrew Bible. The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. All the words in this poem are on that list: Man is (homo est) nothing but wind (nil nisi...