Ibis

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?

• quisque 27
• do 24
• sic 23
• facio 23
• quam 20
• os 20
• aqua 19
• fero 18
• manus 16
• nomen 14
• pereo 13
• malus 13

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

Read from it

• Viscera diversis scissa ferantur equis :

  Ovid, Ibis 280

• Nec tibi fida magis misceri pocula possint,

  Ovid, Ibis 297

• Utque operum mitis , sed non impune, Prometheus,

  Ovid, Ibis 291

• Vel qui , quae fuerat tutatus moenia saepe ,

  Ovid, Ibis 333

• Vel tua , ne poenae genus hoc cognoverit unus,

  Ovid, Ibis 279

• Inque pecus subito Magnae vertare parentis,

  Ovid, Ibis 457

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