Georgicon

The words most alive here

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

• sui 63
• terra 61
• venio 56
• primus 56
• magnus 56
• fero 56
• tum 54
• altus 48
• multus 46
• labor 44
• caelum 44
• ubi 43

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

Read from it

• difficile est: piceae tantum taxique nocentes

  Vergil, Georgicon 2.257

• non tepidum ad solem pinnas in litore pandunt

  Vergil, Georgicon 1.398

• inpia quam caesis gens est epulata iuvencis,

  Vergil, Georgicon 2.537

• Nec magnus prohibere labor: tu regibus alas

  Vergil, Georgicon 4.106

• Sin, has ne possim naturae accedere partis,

  Vergil, Georgicon 2.483

• nec salici lotoque neque Idaeis cyparissis,

  Vergil, Georgicon 2.84

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