Medicamina faciei femineae

The words most alive here

If a word this common still cannot be traced to a single root, what does its ubiquity buy — reach, or forgetting?

• placeo 6
• habeo 5
• ubi 4
• tus 4
• sui 4
• quo 4
• forma 4
• do 4
• amor 4
• addo 4
• vultus 3
• traho 3

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

Read from it

• Et vix ad cultus nupta, quod addat, habet.

  Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae 1.26

• Desit et Illyrica quae venit iris humo.

  Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae 1.74

• Profuit et marathros bene olentibus addere myrrhis,

  Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae 1.91

• Virginibus cordi grataque forma sua est.

  Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae 1.32

• Conspicuam gemmis vultis habere manum:

  Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae 1.20

• Nec tu pallentes dubita torrere lupinos,

  Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae 1.69

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