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Would anyone like it for practise if I posted some poems, paragraphs, and advanced sentences?

Here's one, from Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae (Liber I, xix) ...

XIX Historia super libris Sibyllinis ac de Tarquinio Superbo rege.

i In antiquis annalibus memoria super libris Sibyllinis haec prodita est: ii a**s hospita atque incognita ad Tarquinium Superbum regem adiit novem libros ferens, quos esse dicebat divina oracula; eos velle venundare. iii Tarquinius pretium percontatus est. Mulier nimium atque inmensum poposcit; iiii rex, quasi a**s aetate desiperet, derisit. v Tum illa foculum coram c** igni apponit, tris libros ex novem deurit et, ecquid reliquos sex eodem pretio emere vellet, regem interrogavit. vi Sed enim Tarquinius id multo risit magis dixitque anum iam procul dubio delirare. vii Mulier ibidem statim tris alios libros exussit atque id ipsum denuo placide rogat, ut tris reliquos eodem illo pretio emat. viii Tarquinius ore iam serio atque attentiore animo fit, eam constantiam confidentiamque non insuper habendam intellegit, libros tris reliquos mercatur nihilo minore pretio, quam quod erat petitum pro omnibus. ix Sed eam mulierem tunc a Tarquinio digressam postea nusquam loci visam constitit. x Libri tres in sacrarium conditi "Sibyllini" appellati; xi ad eos quasi ad oraculum quindecimviri adeunt, c** di immortales publice consulendi sunt.

Translation here.

gratias v’omnibus: I’d like to add “commentary” to the Aulus Gelius, I don’t get to use “Grown-up Latin” very often.
19.1: prodita est: pef. passive with haec =“this has been handed down. . . ”

19.2 hospita “guest, stranger” the idea of the guest- host relation ship is emphasized here. it also indicates shades of “foreign”.

19.2 Tarquinius Superbus: last King of Rome, I always call him “Tarquin the Uppity”.

19.2 venundare = “to sell” archaic form >> vendere.

19.3 percontātus est : deponent verb , per- is an intensifying prefix, so he “thoroughly counted” i.e. “he haggled, investigated the price”

19.3 nimium (adverb)

19.4 desiperet : imperf. subj. >> /de +sapere/ = “ to become deluded from mental illness or old age”

19.5 foculum apponit = “she placed it upon the brazier.”

19.5 trīs = trēs the long –ī- often substitutes for long –ēs- in later, or colloquial Latin, this also happens a lot in Vergil: cf “timeo Danaōs et dona ferentīs (cit needed).”

19.6 dēlirāre >> frequentative verb formed from delirium. =“to take leave of one’s senses”

19.7 ibidem (adverb) “at that very moment.” For fans of my aspect/tense discussion, this is an adverbial way of indicating aspect ( aorist in this case).

19.7 exussit recalls deurit in 19.5 same root (still pondering the differing semantic range)

19.8 denuō ( adverb) >> /dē + novō/ [ assimilation; resistance is futile]

19.8 animo fit = “ he became more _____ and ________in his mind” fit >> fio fieri factus the passive voice of facio, usually translated “became” ; animo fit is an idiom and has the idea of “came to realize”

19.8 insuper habendam (esse)= “he understood that there was not any more of her _____ & ______ to be had.” habendam here is a future passive participle, used as an infinitive object of intellexit.

19.9 erat petitum : pluferct passive ( pretium)

19.9 digressam ( esse) object of constitit = “ it was established, determined”

19.9 locī “ any one wanna guess the case?” 100 g to the first Gaian who sends the correct answer to my profile. ::

19.10 conditi ( sunt) and apellati ( sunt) “ to be” is almost always optional in Latin. (unless disambiguation is a necessity)

19.10 in sacrarium in + acc emphasizes that they were placed within the walls of the temple.

The GAIA filter hates Latin, it only allows someone to graduate "magna c** laude" gonk