Punica

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?

• fero 355
• arma 338
• bellum 323
• do 311
• tum 278
• uir 271
• magnus 266
• os 255
• sui 239
• uideo 236
• nunc 232
• campus1 202

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

Read from it

• duritiem lapidum mersis inolescere ramis.

  Silius Italicus, Punica 8.581

• innumerae gentes extremaque litore Tethys.

  Silius Italicus, Punica 16.172

• ingemuit casus iuuenum miseratus acerbos.

  Silius Italicus, Punica 6.207

• agmina disponens passu: ‘Tu limina dextrae

  Silius Italicus, Punica 12.172

• pars Batti petiere domos, pars flumina Lagi.

  Silius Italicus, Punica 17.591

• nullum clade noua claraeque fragore ruinae

  Silius Italicus, Punica 7.228

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