Elegiae

The words most alive here

When a word names both a crowd of Roman gods and the single God of the apologists, is it one word, or two wearing the same letters?

• deus 68
• amor 65
• nunc 56
• fero 53
• do 53
• puella 51
• magnus 42
• dico 41
• Venus1 39
• multus 33
• manus 33
• facio 33

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

Read from it

• Tu tamen abstineas aliis: nam cetera cernet

  Tibullus, Elegiae 1.2.59

• aptaque uel cantu ueteres mutare figuras;

  Tibullus, Elegiae 3.7.63

• Vertimus, in saevas quod dedit ille feras?

  Tibullus, Elegiae 1.10.6

• diues in ignaua luridus Orcus aqua.

  Tibullus, Elegiae 3.3.38

• fecit et antiquis imposuit Laribus.

  Tibullus, Elegiae 2.1.60

• portarat sicco pertuleratque sinu—

  Tibullus, Elegiae 2.5.70

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