De Arte Poetica liber

The words most alive here

When one word carries both *to say* and *to set apart as holy*, is the boundary between them a difference, or a memory?

• dico 25
• multus 16
• poeta 13
• carmen 12
• animus 12
• verbum 11
• sic 11
• do 11
• verus 10
• sui 10
• verro 9
• reddo 9

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

Read from it

• filius Albini: si de quincunce remota est

  Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 327

• inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis

  Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 14

• actoris partis chorus officiumque virile

  Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 193

• Pythias, emuncto lucrata Simone talentum,

  Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 238

• nomen iambeis, cum senos redderet ictus,

  Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 253

• natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte,

  Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 408

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