Silvae

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 113
• magnus 106
• video 97
• nunc 94
• sic 86
• fero 73
• longus 72
• primus 67
• manus 65
• pater 61
• multus 61
• pectus 59

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

Read from it

• torsit et invidia mortemque amplexa iacenti

  Statius, Silvae 2.6.77

• et quibus Arcadia carmen testudine mensis

  Statius, Silvae 5.3.93

• haec te non thiasis procax dolosis

  Statius, Silvae 2.7.124

• quosque alios dignata chelys. tu pandere doctus

  Statius, Silvae 5.3.156

• Quod tibi praerepti. Melior, solamen alumni,

  Statius, Silvae 2.1.1

• tende libens sacrumque latus geniumque potentem

  Statius, Silvae 5.1.187

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