Psychomachia

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?

• Virtus 37
• deus 31
• sui 26
• bellum 23
• Christus 19
• do 18
• manus 17
• quam 16
• corpus 16
• os 15
• sanguis 14
• hostis 14

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

Read from it

• praedurat teneras iter ad cruciabile plantas,

  Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.446

• altior insurgens labefactat, et ora cruore

  Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.31

• nequiquam loris auriga comamque madentem

  Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.413

• nec, si flammicomis Christi pro nomine martyr

  Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.775

• indigenas, ferroque viros flammaque premebat.

  Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.754

• totum hominem et calidos a matre amplectimur artus,

  Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.217

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