Epistulae

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 161
• venio 155
• facio 139
• video 121
• fero 112
• dico 107
• quam 105
• habeo 105
• amor 101
• vir 98
• amo 82
• nunc 81

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

Read from it

• Tantalidae Pelopis Tyndareique decus,

  Ovid, Epistulae 17.54

• Effice; germanis sit comes iste suis!

  Ovid, Epistulae 14.54

• Ille manus istas effingit, et adsidet aegrae

  Ovid, Epistulae 20.137

• At mihi siqua foret, tu nostra iustius ira,

  Ovid, Epistulae 21.205

• Cum venies, remoque move veloque carinam

  Ovid, Epistulae 13.101

• Et modo prospicimus, timida modo voce precamur,

  Ovid, Epistulae 19.51

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