De Rerum Natura

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?

• corpus 543
• video 386
• sui 300
• multus 287
• terra 267
• natura 236
• pars 231
• ratio 218
• quam 216
• magnus 196
• quisque 166
• animus 163

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

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• nam faciunt homines plerumque cupidine caeci

  Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1153

• it Ver et Venus et Veneris praenuntius ante

  Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.737

• de nihiloque renata forent quae cumque videmus.

  Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.542

• tum poteris magnas moles cognoscere eorum

  Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.194

• undique declarat. sed primum quicquid aquai

  Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.264

• inde minutatim processit ferreus ensis

  Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1293

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