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Is Attic Greek grammar completely reconstructed and understood as Latin grammar is?
I am interested in studying Attic Greek and learning it to fluency comparable to what a native speaker of a modern language is capable of, but my friend told me that such a task is impossible since ...
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What's the most common word in Latin?
A comment recently mentioned that the most common word in English is "the", which is odd since it has no direct Latin equivalent. That made me realize: I'm not sure what the most common word ...
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Have Late Latin texts using "ipse, ipsa, ipsum" as definite articles been found?
This anwser gives some examples of Late Latin texts using ille, illa, illud in ways quite similar to the usage of definite articles in modern Romance languages. However, I know that in some varieties ...
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How can I use Perseus for Boolean searches?
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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 ...
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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 says 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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