Saturae

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 150
• do 108
• facio 97
• multus 92
• nullus 86
• dico 81
• video 73
• sui 72
• quam 70
• pono 67
• habeo 66
• tantus 63

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

Read from it

• marmoribus vincens Fortunae atque Herculis aedem,

  Juvenal, Saturae 5.14.90

• et lateri parcas nec quantum iussit anheles.

  Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.37

• marmoreis, et Serrano tenuique Saleio

  Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.80

• Carrinatis; et hunc inopem vidistis, Athenae,

  Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.205

• Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores

  Juvenal, Saturae 4.10.361

• Respice nunc alia ac diversa pericula noctis:

  Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.268

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