de Bello Gothico

The words most alive here

When a word means simply "to give," and lives in every kind of book at once, where do you look to find its life?

• bellum 16
• tot 14
• do 14
• video 12
• urbs 12
• Roma 12
• quam 12
• tantus 11
• sui 11
• sic 11
• nunc 11
• gens 11

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

Read from it

• nec tanti nomen stirpemque abolere Getarum,

  Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.99

• obscaenam latebram pietas ignava requiret.

  Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.306

• pro Latio docuit gentis praefectus Alanae,

  Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.583

• o rerum fatique vices ! qui foeda parabat

  Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.83

• vincendique modum mutatis nosset habenis.

  Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.119

• et tremulos regit hasta gradus et nititur altis

  Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.483

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