Ludus Septem Sapientum

The words most alive here

When one word carries both *to say* and *to set apart as holy*, is the boundary between them a difference, or a memory?

• dico 34
• Solon1 11
• sui 10
• nosco 9
• do 9
• bonus 9
• tempus 8
• rex 8
• malus 8
• venio 7
• puto 7
• gero 7

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

Read from it

• repressit ignem. Croesus ad regem illico

  Ausonius, Ludus Septem Sapientum 4.117

• quid ferre possis, quidve non, dinoscere;

  Ausonius, Ludus Septem Sapientum 5.141

• iam fugit illud nomen invisum mali.

  Ausonius, Ludus Septem Sapientum 8.200

• et quam ciendi causam haberet nominis?

  Ausonius, Ludus Septem Sapientum 4.120

• possum ego censuram lectoris ferre severi

  Ausonius, Ludus Septem Sapientum 1.7

• in hoc, et ulla spreta nobis gloria.

  Ausonius, Ludus Septem Sapientum 5.145

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