de raptu Proserpinae

The words most alive here

When a word carries both seeing and, in its derivatives, a settled kind of knowing, which sense do we owe the other?

• tantus 28
• nullus 28
• sic 26
• fero 26
• nunc 23
• video 21
• talis 18
• mater 18
• sui 17
• os 14
• duco 14
• do 14

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

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• saxa ferit sceptro. Siculae sonuere cavernae ;

  Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.173

• vitales utrimque duas, quas mitis oberrat

  Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 1.1.262

• Ut domus excubiis incustodita remotis

  Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.146

• turget humus medioque patent convexa sereno.

  Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.91

• proderit ? en audet noti Cytherea pudoris

  Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.274

• iamque per anfractus animarum rector opacos

  Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.156

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