Metamorphoses

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?

• video 473
• do 403
• dico 345
• facio 310
• fero 308
• deus 278
• corpus 263
• os 252
• venio 221
• sui 210
• quam 208
• habeo 208

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

Read from it

• numen erat, magnasque novi matertera vires

  Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.417

• Nec par aut eadem nocturnae forma Dianae

  Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.196

• ipsa iacet terraeque tremens inmurmurat atrae;

  Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.558

• supremumque vale pleno singultibus ore

  Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.509

• occupat, unde sedens partes speculatur in omnes.

  Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.667

• mirantem potuisse, irascentemque, quod ausi

  Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.269

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