Elegiae

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?

• amor 157
• puella 121
• nunc 98
• do 96
• manus 90
• venio 84
• deus 81
• nullus 80
• os 79
• dico 74
• nox 70
• facio 70

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

Read from it

• dic mihi, num teneros urit lorica lacertos?

  Propertius, Elegiae 4.3.23

• pellitos habuit, rustica corda, Patres.

  Propertius, Elegiae 4.1.12

• et Ptolomaeei litora capta Phari,

  Propertius, Elegiae 2.1.30

• urgeat hunc supra uis, caprifice, tua.

  Propertius, Elegiae 4.5.76

• et manibus duris apta puella fui.’

  Propertius, Elegiae 4.9.50

• stamus: victricis temperat ira manus.

  Propertius, Elegiae 3.22.22

Doors

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