Argonautica

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 194
• do 180
• nunc 143
• primus 136
• fero 129
• vir 125
• manus 124
• sic 114
• saevus 107
• magnus 107
• ago 106
• aequor 103

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

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• hac Asiam Scytbicum specie sinuatus in arcum.

  Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.728

• Tum genitor 'vetera haec nobis et condita pergunt

  Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.531

• si vocet et motis ululantia Dindyma sacris,

  Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.232

• siqua brevis scopulis fieret mora, si semel orsis

  Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.572

• subicit Aesonides: 'utinam nunc ira Pelasgos

  Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.659

• pectora; mors habitat saevaeque hoc litore pugnae.

  Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.147

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