Carmina

The words most alive here

When a word is this common, does the corpus tell us anything about it beyond where the writing itself lives?

• o 84
• facio 65
• dico 56
• sui 53
• multus 52
• quam 51
• fero 51
• amor 51
• Hymenaeus 50
• malus 46
• Hymen 46
• puella 41

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

Read from it

• labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum

  Catullus, Carmina lyrics.31.9

• itis, quandoquidem patris rapinae

  Catullus, Carmina lyrics.33.6

• tum Thetidis Peleus incensus fertur amore,

  Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.19

• Noli admirari quare tibi femina nulla,

  Catullus, Carmina elegies.69.1

• qui, quacumque aliquid reperitur non bene factum,

  Catullus, Carmina elegies.67.13

• cui nunquam domini limine abesse licet,

  Catullus, Carmina elegies.67.38

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