Amores

The words most alive here

When a word means simply "to give," and lives in every kind of book at once, where do you look to find its life?

• do 96
• amor 84
• fero 81
• facio 76
• puella 70
• habeo 68
• manus 64
• amo 64
• video 63
• venio 62
• dico 54
• quam 51

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

Read from it

• Quam se praebuerunt ferro patienter et igni,

  Ovid, Amores 1.14.25

• Serviat, hi pacem crudaque bella gerant —

  Ovid, Amores 3.8.58

• Quod nimium dominae cura molesta tua est.

  Ovid, Amores 2.2.8

• Pone recompositas in statione comas!

  Ovid, Amores 1.7.68

• Et quam fluminea lusit adulter ave,

  Ovid, Amores 1.3.22

• Deripui tunicam — nec multum rara nocebat;

  Ovid, Amores 1.5.13

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