Peristephanon Liber

The words most alive here

When a word names both a crowd of Roman gods and the single God of the apologists, is it one word, or two wearing the same letters?

• Christus 120
• deus 113
• os 59
• sanguis 58
• do 58
• corpus 58
• video 57
• fero 53
• mors 52
• sui 40
• sic 39
• solus 37

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

Read from it

• tandem soluti ac liberi

  Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 2.270

• huc taurus ingens fronte torva et hispida

  Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.1021

• diversa utrosque permovet:

  Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 2.387

• fertur catholicam fidem

  Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 7.9

• Tarpeia calcentur sacra?

  Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 5.106

• lucis honoratae praemia restituens,

  Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 11.236

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