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How can I use Perseus for Boolean searches?
Encouraged by Joonas Ilmavirta in chat, as ‘Corpus tool questions are a useful thing to have for reference’, I boldly go forth asking this publicly: Does anyone know how to do a Boolean search on ...
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What is the proper way to cite the Packhum corpus?
The PHI Latin corpus (previously known as PHI5.3 and now available to search online) is certainly an important tool, and I've made good use of it in various corpus analyses.
However, I'm not sure how ...
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Set of texts of increasing difficulty
I am looking for resources to progress in Latin reading.
In particular, I would like a set of texts (for example short stories or fables) whose difficulty increases as you go along.
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What do the author numbers in PHI5.3 mean?
In Packhum's Latin corpus (PHI5.3), each author is identified by a four-digit code. For example, Caesar is 0448, while Cicero is 0474, and Seneca the Younger is 1017. Each work is then given a three-...
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How do I access the PHI 5.3 corpus through CLTK?
CLTK (the Classical Languages ToolKit) seems to contain several tools to work with the Packhum Latin corpus. However, the actual setup process seems to require the use of several different tools, none ...
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What are the key classic philosophical/religious texts in Latin? [closed]
These are the top texts in different languages I have gathered:
Torah (Hebrew)
Tao Te Ching (Chinese)
Rig Veda (Sanskrit)
Perfection of Wisdom (Tibetan)
Quran (Arabic)
New Testament (Greek)
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Are dialogues in ancient texts declared with "He said: ..." and "She said: ..."
I am particularly interested atm in the Edda where it has "Foo spake:" and "Bar spake:" before several of the stanzas. But that's Old Norse. This being a Latin site, I am interested in the Latin Mass ...
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How was the original Ovid Metamorphoses formatted/punctuated most likely?
What punctuation was used in Classical Latin? was very insightful, but it doesn't go into specifics. Wikipedia said we don't have any original sources of Ovid's Metamorphoses until the 9th or 10th ...
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Two Sappho-related reference requests
As some of you will definitely know, I have been grappling with Sappho for a long time. Lately, I have come to an impasse in a couple places, where I have said all I can without a specific reference I ...
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looking for a pair of texts in a Greek/Latin comedy
I'm looking for any pair of texts (Ancient Greek, Latin), meeting the following criteria:
Both texts may be very brief.
The Latin text should be a translation very close to the Greek text.
The Greek ...
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Tracing mysterious line ends in a combination of Sappho fragments found in an Italian anthology
Somewhat recently, I stumbled upon this Italian Sappho anthology, where, among other combinations, the following is found:
First off, they are not listing all the fragments joined into this ...
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How to download an entire text from Perseus?
This is a technical question, but I hope it's on topic. The Perseus project contains lots and lots of Latin and Greek texts (and other languages too). I sometimes want to download an entire text from ...
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How do I locate a classical quotation?
This recent question brought up the quotation numqvam est ille miser cui facile est mori. A bit of Google indicates that this (probably) comes from Seneca.
But from there, how would I find the ...
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Identifying papyri
Sometime in Jan/Feb 2018, the Bodleian library published this image showing a number of P.Oxy. 1231 fragments with some P.Oxy. 2166(a) fragments attached. Recently, I tried to identify each and every ...
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Which are the longest words in Latin?
Today I was reading 1 Samuel 5 in the Vulgata and in verse 9 these two words are found:
... circumducentibus ... computrescebant ...
which surprised me for their length (16 and 15 letters ...
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What is up with these codices?
Sorry for the vague title, but that is really the question.
The problem is with the manuscript sources for Lobel-Page incerti auctoris 24. From Edmonds on, the sources are reported as:
υεσζερυμηνιον ...
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About P.Oxy. 1787 fr. 9
Bibliotheca Augustana reports a fragment in book 1 of Sappho which, it says, is from P. Oxy. XV (1922) nr. 1787 fr. 9, and reads:
]ο δέρκεν ἐπώμοσσ[
]ν ἔτι, τὰν παῖδα δε[
]βρ[.]ταν κἀγχερριθ[έτ-...
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Where is the database of "Corpus Latinorum Et Mediaevalium Naturae Scriptorum", promised 10 years ago
Has anybody found the actual database of "Corpus Latinorum Et Mediaevalium Naturae Scriptorum" instead of just project notes? The descriptions look incredibly promising:
CLEMENS, acronym ...
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Identifying papyrus in image from my computer
Digging through my computer, I found this image, named PK8r.jpg.
I assume P stands for "Papyrus" and K for "Köln", but I couldn't find it online, neither on Kölner Papyri nor as a ...
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Is there a Latin POS-tagged corpus?
PHI is indispensable for looking up concordance, but it lacks part of speech tagging. Anybody knows if there exists a POS-tagged corpus of Latin works?
Best preference is a free one, as if not, it's ...
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Does any text corpus allow quantity-sensitive searches?
Is there a text corpus, preferably of classical Latin, in which one can or even must search with specific vowel quantities?
This came up when I wanted to search for patĕre but not patēre and had ...
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How to search Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum for words?
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) is a large corpus of Latin inscriptions.
The Wikipedia page contains some links, but none of the tools linked there seem to allow me to make a text search.
For ...
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How to curse someone in Latin?
Suppose I want to curse someone — I want to ask some gods or spirits to do evil upon a particular person.
(No, I'm not angry at any user of this site.)
How do I do this in Latin?
I am not ...
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About the Sappho fragment containing Doricha's name that was found first (Campbell 15, Edmonds 37)
I see that Sappho Campbell 15 has two sources: P.Oxy. 1231 fr. 1, and P.Oxy. 1231 fr. 3. The matching Edmonds is n. 37, which only keeps the last, more complete stanza, and thus does not include fr. 3....
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What is this extra source for Sappho 31 Campbell / 2 Edmonds?
I just noticed that Campbell, listing sources for Sappho 31 Campbell / 2 Edmonds, besides Longinus, mentions also P.S.I. (v. fr. 213B). I looked on PSI online, but nothing with the number 213 in its ...
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Is there any other reason to put these P.Oxy. 1787 frr. 1&2 together than Athenaeus's quotation? And what about the little Cologne scrap?
I researched the sources of Sappho's ῎Υμμες πεδὰ Μοίσαν ἰοκόλπων κάλα δῶρα παῖδες (whatever the number is). There are two scraps from P.Oxy. 1787, precisely frr. 1-2, and potentially fr. 2(a), with ...
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What is the most common classical Latin word that we don't understand?
I assume that we do not know the meaning of every single word attested in classical and older Latin (literature, inscriptions, and other material).
If this assumption is false, it makes this question ...
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On what basis does Campbell put P.Oxy. 1231 fr. 12 together with fr. 15? And why does Edmonds not? And why does C read more than Grenfell and Hunt do?
We're talking about the Gongyla poem. Campbell has it as sourced by P.Oxy. 1231 frr. 12 and 15. Edmonds separates the two. Also, Edmonds' completion is perfectly fine with Grenfell and Hunt's reading ...
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Did P.Oxy. 2288 contribute in any way to our knowledge of Sappho's hymn to Aphrodite?
From what I gather, we alrady have the text of Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite (alias Sappho 1, the only poem we have complete) complete and uncontroversial (save for the bit in cruces, τίνα δηὖτε πείθω / ...
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What does this bit of papyrus say?
Below is a bit of P.Oxy.2076. Full image of that papyrus here.
I read it as:
ϹΑΠΦΟ[
Β
ΜΙΤ̣I̤ΝΥΔΥ[...
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How are P.Oxy. numbers chosen?
Some time ago, I posted on Literature about Sappho's Hector and Andromacha. To sum-up, the sources for that are P.Oxy. 1232 and P.Oxy. 2076. P.Oxy. 1232 is three scraps of papyrus, one of which has a ...
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Corpus analysis of word order frequency
Inspired by an earlier question about Yoda's word order in Latin, I would like to know how common different word orders were in classical Latin.
To be more specific, I would like statistical ...
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Where to find an online Latin text corpus and what can I do with it?
Suppose I want to search for a certain word, expression or structure in the Latin literature.
What online tools can I use for such purposes?
Where can I find a large collection of Latin texts in ...