Are there native tongue-twisters in Latin?

Question

Many languages have well established "tongue-twisters" (phrases difficult to articulate). In my native Spanish, "classic" examples are

Pedro Pablo Pinto Pérez Pereira, pobre pintor portugués, pinta paisajes por poca plata, para poder pasear por París.

Un otorrinolaringólogo se otorrinolaringolizó. Aquel que lo desotorrinolaringolice buen desotorrinolaringolizador será.

Are there examples of "native" tongue-twisters in Latin? By native I mean developed within a "indigenous" Latin language context (Classical, Medieval, ...) and not by "modern" linguistics or Latin teachers. The wikipedia article makes no mention of the history of tongue-twisters. I bet there must be one based on a lot of qui quo quot quia ... type of words.

It must be interesting to know particularly of cases that were understood as tongue-twisters at their time, rather than merely phrases that are evidently, for us at least, complicated to articulate, and thus "look like" tongue-twisters.

Answer 1

Quintus Ennius loved alliteration and produced a few verses, which he probably did not intend as tongue-twisters, but which might be called that:

• O Tite tute Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulisti.
• Mater optumatum multo mulier melior mulierum.
• Stultust qui cupita cupiens cupienter cupit.
• Quicquam quisquam cuiquam, quod conveniat, neget?
• Machina multa minax minitatur maxima muris.

I collected these from various 19th century authors I found on Google Books. Finding proper citations for Ennius is somewhat out of my league, as most of his work seems to have survived only in small fragments (for example, the second one was quoted by Cicero in De Divinatione 1, 66).

Answer 2

Two more:

In mari meri miri mori muri accidit.

In a sea of delightful wine, a mouse happened to die.

which may have no particular author, and a 14th century one from a headstone of the Church of San Procolo in Bologna, Italy:

Si procul a Proculo Proculi campana fuisset, nunc procul a Proculo Proculus ipse foret.

If the bell of [the Church of Saint] Proculus had been far from Proculus [maybe the bell ringer, or a university student living in the convent], now Proculus himself [buried inside the church, after the bell fell on his head] would be far from Proculus [the saint, also buried there].

Answer 3

It occurred to me that some of Cicero's poetry is in a similar stylistic vein to Ennius's, and a very quick review of the extant fragments did turn up a few isolated lines that, if not actual tongue-twisters, come pretty close:

aetheris aeterni saepta atque inclusa cavernis [From book 2 of De consolatu suo]

nunc ea, Torquato quae quondam et consule Cotta [ibid.]

And especially:

lustrasti et laeto mactasti lacte Latinas [ibid.]