Carmina

The words most alive here

When a word means simply "to give," and lives in every kind of book at once, where do you look to find its life?

• do 97
• sic 83
• sui 80
• multus 72
• venio 69
• magnus 63
• fors 58
• fero 56
• facio 56
• video 55
• princeps 54
• tum 51

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

Read from it

• esuriens vomuit suspenso belua morsu;

  Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 16.30

• sed premit adiecto radiantis pondere conchae

  Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 11.37

• quem pacis simul arbor et iuventae

  Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 14.4

• Romula desuetas moderentur classica classes.’

  Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.386

• hinc te temporis ad mei Laconas

  Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 24.26

• (nam Martem tulit ista Iulianum

  Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 23.16

Doors

• Ask about the words of the Carmina →
• Other works of Sidonius Epistulae, Books VIII-IX