Saturae

The words most alive here

When one word carries both *to say* and *to set apart as holy*, is the boundary between them a difference, or a memory?

• dico 27
• nunc 22
• vivo 18
• do 17
• veto 13
• sui 13
• o 13
• facio 13
• video 12
• venio 12
• puer 12
• Iuppiter 12

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

Read from it

• verba togae sequeris iunctura callidus acri,

  Persius, Saturae 5.14

• rixanti populo, nostra ut Floralia possint

  Persius, Saturae 5.178

• intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu,

  Persius, Saturae 1.21

• excutit e manibus, dentes crepuere refecti,

  Persius, Saturae 3.101

• si facis in penem quidquid tibi venit, amarum

  Persius, Saturae 4.48

• cum pipere et palmis venit nostrum hoc maris expers,

  Persius, Saturae 6.39

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