Contra Symmachum

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 97
• sui 43
• quam 37
• Roma 35
• homo 35
• do 30
• Christus 30
• mos 28
• tantus 27
• sic 27
• urbs 26
• nunc 26

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

Read from it

• talis nostrorum sollertia centiplicatos

  Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.1051

• Mulvius exceptum Tiberina in stagna tyrannum

  Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.482

• errores veteres et turbida ab ore vieto

  Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.507

• cur etiam templo Triviae lucisque sacratis

  Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.53

• Saturnique senis lapides Phoebique furores,

  Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.627

• illic lascivum, Campania fertilis, hostem

  Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.746

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