Satyrarum libri

The words most alive here

When a word means “great” in every kind of book, is it describing the world, or the writer's wish to enlarge it?

• magnus 87
• facio 68
• malus 65
• sui 60
• multus 60
• bonus 59
• dico 56
• do 47
• quo 46
• amicus 42
• siquis 41
• vivo 38

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

Read from it

• hoc miserae plebi stabat commune sepulcrum;

  Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.8.10

• Pusam aut Pusillam appellet fortique marito

  Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.3.216

• signis perfacile est: venit vilissima rerum

  Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.5.88

• iactat habetque palam, quaerit, quo turpia celet.

  Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.2.85

• consistit sumptus? neglectis flagitium ingens.

  Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.4.82

• nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donec

  Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.1.73

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