Dittochaeon

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 17
• deus 11
• iubeo 7
• templum 6
• sanguis 6
• os 6
• fero 6
• sancio 5
• homo 5
• dominus 5
• virgo 4
• ubi 4

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

Read from it

• Bis duodena senum sedes pateris citharisque

  Prudentius, Dittochaeon 49.193

• lucus apostolicum numerum libris quoque pinxit.

  Prudentius, Dittochaeon 14.56

• cura gregis, citharam formans ad ovile paternum,

  Prudentius, Dittochaeon 19.74

• mox recipit visum, fit apostolus ac populorum

  Prudentius, Dittochaeon 48.191

• tinxit et innocuum maculis sordentibus Adam;

  Prudentius, Dittochaeon 1.3

• psaltria respersis manibus de sanguine iusto.

  Prudentius, Dittochaeon 34.136

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