Ars Amatoria

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 110
• facio 85
• puella 83
• venio 82
• habeo 76
• dico 72
• fero 68
• vir 67
• amor 66
• multus 64
• ars 58
• saepe 53

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

Read from it

• Haec tibi non tenues veniet delapsa per auras:

  Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.43

• Quantum ad Pirithoum, Phaedra pudica fuit.

  Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.744

• Illa potest vigiles flammas extinguere Vestae,

  Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.463

• Vos quoque, de nobis quem quisque erit aptus ad usum,

  Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.529

• Femina quid faciat, cum sit vir levior ipsa,

  Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.437

• Thesea crudelem surdas clamabat ad undas,

  Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.531

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