Carmina Omnia

The words most alive here

If a word means only "to come," why does the whole history of Rome need it eleven thousand times?

• quam 5
• tristis 3
• puella 3
• cura 3
• venio 2
• quisquam 2
• nunc 2
• natal 2
• morbus 2
• malus 2
• magis 2
• fero 2

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

Read from it

• nostra potes lento pectore ferre mala?

  Tibullus, Carmina Omnia 5.6

• ac videor paucos ante fuisse dies,

  Tibullus, Carmina Omnia 6.2

• ne cedam ignoto, maxima causa, toro.

  Tibullus, Carmina Omnia 4.6

• Solliciti sunt pro nobis, quibus illa dolori est,

  Tibullus, Carmina Omnia 4.5

• dicetur si quis non habuisse sua.

  Tibullus, Carmina Omnia 1.6

• Gratum est, securus multum quod iam tibi de me

  Tibullus, Carmina Omnia 4.1

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