Mosella

The words most alive here

When a word means “great” in every kind of book, is it describing the world, or the writer's wish to enlarge it?

• amnis 32
• ripa 16
• viridis 12
• Mosella 12
• magnus 12
• video 11
• unda 11
• meo 11
• flumen 11
• traho 10
• piscis 10
• venio 9

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

Read from it

• solus puniceis facilis contendere mullis:

  Ausonius, Mosella pr.117

• et rivos trepido potis aequiperare meatu,

  Ausonius, Mosella pr.29

• tu loricato squamosus pectore, frontem

  Ausonius, Mosella pr.101

• vel qua Germanis sub portibus ostia solvis:

  Ausonius, Mosella pr.473

• hic habuit decimo celebrata volumine Marcei

  Ausonius, Mosella pr.306

• amnicolam delphina reor: sic per freta magnum

  Ausonius, Mosella pr.137

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