Achilleis

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 38
• do 34
• magnus 33
• fero 28
• eo1 28
• Achilles 28
• tunc 26
• pectus 26
• primus 25
• nunc 25
• mater 24
• sic 22

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

Read from it

• litora: monstrat iter totoque effulgurat orbe

  Statius, Achilleis 1.231

• cogitur et captos contempsit cerva leones

  Statius, Achilleis 1.466

• Pelion: hic victo risit Thetis anxia vultu,

  Statius, Achilleis 1.194

• aspicit intentum vigilique haec aure trahentem,

  Statius, Achilleis 1.794

• Aeaciden — quippe aura vocat cognataque suadent

  Statius, Achilleis 2.7

• virtutisque aditus, quas membra augere per artes,

  Statius, Achilleis 2.90

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