Ex Ponto

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 146
• quam 115
• do 113
• habeo 111
• magnus 89
• video 87
• deus 77
• nullus 70
• venio 69
• quisque 69
• locus 68
• fero 68

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

Read from it

• num tamen excuses erroris origine factum,

  Ovid, Ex Ponto 2.2.55

• sperandum est nostras posse valere preces,

  Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.3.92

• quique acies Libycas Romanaque proelia dixit;

  Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.16.23

• plus illud quam tua vota valet.

  Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.6.4

• tuta petant alii: fortuna miserrima tuta est,

  Ovid, Ex Ponto 2.2.31

• effice vos ipsi ne tam mihi sitis amandi,

  Ovid, Ex Ponto 1.3.45

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