Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti

The words most alive here

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

• sic 10
• venio 9
• Venus1 8
• tantus 8
• quo 8
• amor 8
• parens 7
• Maria1 7
• video 6
• thalamus 6
• sui 6
• quicumque 6

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

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• dat varios nexus et iusto dividit orbes

  Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.104

• unde Cupidineas armari fama sagittas.

  Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.71

• exulat; aeterni patet indulgentia veris.

  Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.55

• iura tenent. fateor, Stilicho, non parva poposci,

  Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.34

• Cymothoen. timet ilia ferum seseque sequenti

  Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.138

• vincula cognatae: quamvis aliena fuisses

  Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.262

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