Epistulae

The words most alive here

If a word appears twenty thousand times to measure abundance, does it name the many, or only our need to count them?

• multus 55
• dico 40
• bonus 39
• fero 34
• vivo 32
• facio 32
• sui 31
• quo 31
• do 31
• nunc 28
• video 27
• Virtus 26

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

Read from it

• non servastis,” ait, “cui sic extorta voluptas

  Horace, Epistulae 2.2.139

• limitibus vicina refugit iurgia; tamquam

  Horace, Epistulae 2.2.171

• gratus Alexandro regi magno fuit ille

  Horace, Epistulae 2.1.232

• ludus enim genuit trepidum certamen et iram,

  Horace, Epistulae 1.19.48

• Me quamvis Lamiae pietas et cura moratur,

  Horace, Epistulae 1.14.6

• prudens emisti vitiosum; dicta tibi est lex :

  Horace, Epistulae 2.2.18

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