In Rufinum

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 24
• fero 23
• sui 19
• video 16
• nullus 15
• do 15
• venio 14
• sic 14
• eo1 14
• paro1 12
• manus 12
• Stilicho 11

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

Read from it

• rector et incerto fluerent mortalia casu.

  Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.3

• respicit et tanti miratur sibila vulgi.

  Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.399

• tot nos bella docent nulli servire tyranno.”

  Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.390

• atria regifico iussit splendere paratu

  Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.340

• privati fugisse modum crimenque tyranni,”

  Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.316

• Est locus extremum pandit qua Gallia litus

  Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.123

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