A short breather from the Autumn quarter, which has rushed by. I’ll try to post on various updates this week and in coming weeks, but first of all, some thank-yous to people who have made Logeion and adjacent sites (Philo4Classics for one) better in the past year. Walt Shandruk does a lot of work on […]

Please see all the caveats from the Greek list, plus a hundred more: I’m a Hellenist. I have not spent the last decade making the Latin lemmatization better:-) Please report the no-doubt-obvious problems you encounter when using this list in earnest! That said, here you go: et 1 sum 2 in 3 qui 4 is […]

Here, by popular request and as a placeholder, are the first 2000 words in order of frequency in our Greek corpus. Since the last set are in shared 1993rd place, the count is not exactly 2000. Provenance: Word frequencies in the perseus.uchicago.edu Greek corpus. The numbers you see below are the same as in the […]

We’ve immediately had a user do something that none of the testers managed, namely crash the app, so there will be a 3.1 update soon. In the meantime, enjoy the pulse of Logeion on 5 continents:

We hope that using the Logeion app on your iPhone or iPad is intuitive, and that you’ll get the hang of it quickly, all by yourself, but here are the basics, and some answers to frequently asked questions. To look up a word, tap Search at the top left, if you do not already see […]

“educated” people used to employ these Latin abbreviations Latin, and navigation in the dictionary: v. [see], s.v. [look in entry for ..], cf. [compare..], sq. [next entry], infr. [further down in this entry], supra [further up in this entry] grammatical terms Latin: you’re probably used to them if you’re already using LSJ, or can figure them out: […]

(Logeion users by city, with ‘not set’ by far the favorite..) FAQ: Q: Can students work on Logeion/on Philo4Classics? A: Yes! Q: What have they done for you lately? A: Have you seen this site, Logeion? All built by students! When you contribute, your work is likely to be seen a million times (edited to […]

Turns out that besides ἁρπάζω, rapio, snatch/rape there are of course more verbs of movement that include/express copulation, namely θρῴσκω, jump (also, ἐπιβαίνω, ‘get on, mount’) . These both somehow seem more appropriate to TFG’s behavior. It did bring on another LSJ peeve. βουθόρος, cow-jumping, is translated as ‘vaccas iniens’ (Latin for entering into cows- […]

Currently working on lemmatizing a bunch of Plutarch (Moralia) and as I double check the Morpheus output, kindly provided through the Alpheios API, I come across καταζήσεις. You now get to guess how I lemmatize this. You could do the following: The righteous lemma: καταζήω or The expected conventional lemma: καταζάω But no, I’m going […]

Had a wonderful follow-up exchange with someone from the Internet Archive. My current target of interest is getting a new OCR attempt as I write this! Lovely conversation; I now know a little bit more about how they work. If you are on Twitter, you’ll see that I was basically encouraged to send them a wishlist […]