Epicedion in Patrem

The words most alive here

If a word this common still cannot be traced to a single root, what does its ubiquity buy — reach, or forgetting?

• habeo 5
• procul 4
• bonus 4
• vita 3
• spes 3
• officium 3
• honor 3
• colo1 3
• vox 2
• video 2
• veto 2
• verus 2

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

Read from it

• officiumque meum cum pietate fuit.

  Ausonius, Epicedion in Patrem 4.12

• egregia et nuptae laus erat et viduae,

  Ausonius, Epicedion in Patrem 4.48

• nonaginta annos baculo sine, corpore toto

  Ausonius, Epicedion in Patrem 4.61

• officia in multos diverso debita cultu

  Ausonius, Epicedion in Patrem 4.15

• tranquillus, clemens, oculis, voce, ore serenus,

  Ausonius, Epicedion in Patrem 4.43

• haec quicumque leges, non aspernabere fari:

  Ausonius, Epicedion in Patrem 4.63

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