Cento Nuptialis

The words most alive here

When a word means simply "to give," and lives in every kind of book at once, where do you look to find its life?

• os 12
• fero 8
• do 7
• vir 6
• talis 6
• puer 6
• dico 6
• aurum 6
• altus 6
• tum 5
• sui 5
• parens 5

By how often they stand in this work, the commonest particles set aside. Each opens onto its own word.

Read from it

• finem adventabant: tum creber anhelitus artus

  Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 8.129

• talis erat species, talem se laeta ferebat

  Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 3.44

• et super incumbens nodis et cortice crudo

  Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 8.116

• at parte ex alia biforem dat tibia cantum.

  Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 2.27

• purpura maeandro duplici Meliboea cucurrit,

  Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 4.49

• intentos volvens oculos, uritque videndo.

  Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 3.37

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