Apotheosis

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?

• deus 123
• Christus 80
• video 45
• sui 45
• homo 44
• pater 43
• dominus 36
• corpus 31
• facio 29
• credo 29
• os 26
• Patrae 25

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

Read from it

• caecus adest oculis iam Christi ex ore refectis

  Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.698

• nil agit arcanum murmur, nil Thessala prosunt

  Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.477

• ex atavis longo texens per stemmata filo.

  Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.985

• casibus aut caeco votum sub honore dicarunt?

  Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.641

• induci species, queat ut sub imagine eerni?

  Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.48

• dogmata catholicam maculent male prodita linguam,

  Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.2

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