Thebais

The words most alive here

When a word carries both seeing and, in its derivatives, a settled kind of knowing, which sense do we owe the other?

• video 233
• eo1 228
• arma 226
• manus 223
• bellum 208
• fero 204
• os 198
• do 195
• sic 190
• pectus 186
• nunc 184
• magnus 180

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

Read from it

• haud procul Herculeam Nemcen clamore reductus

  Statius, Thebais 6.368

• milite vicinae nullo iuvere Mycenae;

  Statius, Thebais 4.306

• dilectosque canes ullis agat amplius antris.

  Statius, Thebais 9.905

• mirantem gravioris eri. sublimis agebat,

  Statius, Thebais 4.273

• quos, age, Parrhasio sternis, puer improbe, cornu?

  Statius, Thebais 9.744

• mox et fulgentes clipeos et saeva remittunt

  Statius, Thebais 10.152

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