Parentalia

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 22
• pater 18
• primus 16
• mater 16
• fatum 16
• nomen 15
• quam 12
• maestus 12
• honor 12
• bonus 12
• aevum 12
• vita 11

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

Read from it

• QUIN et funereis amitam inpertire querellis,

  Ausonius, Parentalia 26.1

• Tarbellae matris patris et Haeduici.

  Ausonius, Parentalia 2.2

• festinasse putes fatum, ne funus acerbum

  Ausonius, Parentalia 20.5

• coniunx namque meae tu consociate sorori

  Ausonius, Parentalia 15.3

• debetur matri cetera progenies.

  Ausonius, Parentalia 23.20

• tacitum sine honore relinquat,

  Ausonius, Parentalia 17.3

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