Praefatio

The words most alive here

If a word's case-endings never quite settle, is it still one word, or the wear-mark of everything the language did with it?

• dies 3
• deus 3
• ultimo 2
• reddo 2
• quo 2
• quisquis 2
• primus 2
• malus 2
• fallo 2
• bonus 2
• ago 2
• vox 1

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

Read from it

• foedavit iuvenem nequitiae sordibus ac luto.

  Prudentius, Praefatio 1.12

• liber, quo tulerit lingua sono mobilis ultimo!

  Prudentius, Praefatio 1.45

• flevit sub ferulis. mox docuit toga

  Prudentius, Praefatio 1.8

• annum cardo rotat, dum fruimur sole volubili.

  Prudentius, Praefatio 1.3

• Per quinquennia iam decem,

  Prudentius, Praefatio 1.1

• labem, Roma, tuis inferat idolis,

  Prudentius, Praefatio 1.41

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