Cupido cruciatur

The words most alive here

When a word carries both seeing and, in its derivatives, a settled kind of knowing, which sense do we owe the other?

• amor 5
• Venus1 4
• quisque 4
• puer 4
• olim 4
• maestus 4
• crimen 4
• amo 4
• video 3
• species 3
• pingo 3
• nullus 3

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

Read from it

• stridentes nullo igne faces, rescindit adultum

  Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.72

• et tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos:

  Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.7

• ipsa etiam simili genetrix obnoxia culpae

  Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.79

• dulcibus et maestis refovent tormenta querellis.

  Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.44

• Endymioneos solita adfectare sopores,

  Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.41

• fulmineos Semele decepta puerpera partus

  Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.16

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