Fasti

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 234
• dico 206
• habeo 185
• deus 168
• fero 148
• video 139
• venio 139
• nomen 136
• facio 132
• Iuppiter 122
• nunc 112
• aqua 109

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

Read from it

• abstulerint celeres improba verba Noti,

  Ovid, Fasti 5.686

• pro domibus frondes norant, pro frugibus herbas,

  Ovid, Fasti 2.293

• edidit ausuros in Iovis ire domum;

  Ovid, Fasti 5.36

• prima feros habitus homini detraxit: ab illa

  Ovid, Fasti 4.107

• quos ego Romanis succubuisse tuli.

  Ovid, Fasti 6.50

• quam sterili terrae Delphicus edat opem.

  Ovid, Fasti 3.856

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