Eclogues

The words most alive here

When one word carries both *to say* and *to set apart as holy*, is the boundary between them a difference, or a memory?

• Menalcas 38
• carmen 31
• dico 25
• Damoetas 24
• video 21
• venio 20
• Corydon 20
• Tityrus 19
• nunc 19
• puer 18
• silva 17
• pecus2 17

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

Read from it

• ecce ferunt Nymphae calathis; tibi candida Nais,

  Vergil, Eclogues 2.46

• Despectus tibi sum, nec qui sim quaeris, Alexi,

  Vergil, Eclogues 2.19

• Extremum hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem:

  Vergil, Eclogues 10.1

• sic tibi, cum fluctus subterlabere Sicanos,

  Vergil, Eclogues 10.4

• castaneasque nuces, mea quas Amaryllis amabat;

  Vergil, Eclogues 2.52

• dum tenera attondent simae virgulta capellae.

  Vergil, Eclogues 10.7

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