Tristia

The words most alive here

When a word is this common, does the corpus tell us anything about it beyond where the writing itself lives?

• facio 132
• habeo 117
• do 116
• tempus 93
• malus 89
• fero 87
• video 85
• carmen 83
• deus 81
• sic 80
• nunc 80
• multus 79

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

Read from it

• quod licet (et tutum est) intra tua pectora gaude

  Ovid, Tristia 4.5.17

• per tua perque sui facta parentis eant;

  Ovid, Tristia 2.1.168

• haesurum iugulo iam puto iamque meo.

  Ovid, Tristia 1.1.44

• scripta vetustatem si modo nostra ferunt,

  Ovid, Tristia 5.9.8

• ascitus totiens in genus omne loci?

  Ovid, Tristia 1.8.34

• auguror, accedunt tempora parva malis.

  Ovid, Tristia 4.6.40

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