Aeneid

The words most alive here

When a word means simply "to give," and lives in every kind of book at once, where do you look to find its life?

• do 322
• fero 296
• sui 269
• magnus 267
• arma 263
• primus 255
• tum 239
• aeneas 237
• video 226
• nunc 214
• venio 212
• manus 207

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

Read from it

• vana superstitio veterumque ignara deorum

  Vergil, Aeneid 8.187

• Tertia sed postquam maiore hastilia nisu

  Vergil, Aeneid 3.37

• quos Simois premat ille viros, infanda per orbem

  Vergil, Aeneid 11.257

• contra fata deum perverso numine poscunt,

  Vergil, Aeneid 7.584

• impulerat torrens arbustaque diruta ripis,

  Vergil, Aeneid 10.363

• tantum aevi longinqua valet mutare vetustas—

  Vergil, Aeneid 3.415

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