Precationes

The words most alive here

If a word means only "to come," why does the whole history of Rome need it eleven thousand times?

• venio 24
• annus 13
• sol 9
• novus 9
• renovo 8
• IANE 7
• sui 4
• do 4
• consul 4
• vario 3
• signum 3
• Janus 3

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

Read from it

• sementem Notus umificet, sit bruma nivalis,

  Ausonius, Precationes 1.15

• curricula aequatis varians per tempora signis

  Ausonius, Precationes 2.9

• quod mireris, habes? Roma illa domusque Quirini

  Ausonius, Precationes 1.6

• Anne, bonis coepte auspiciis, da vere salubri

  Ausonius, Precationes 1.10

• ultime circuitu: procul a Pyroente remotus

  Ausonius, Precationes 1.29

• stella salutigeri Iovis et Cythereie Vesper:

  Ausonius, Precationes 1.31

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