Premature indignation first: I noticed that the Loeb text of How to Study Poetry printed καμμονίαν for the Homeric word καμμονίην for what seem to me spurious reasons. I check the TLG text and — same. Grumble, blegh. Except, in fact, the TLG uses the 1927 Babbitt Loeb so this just represented the same bad decision of […]

The LSJ was painstakingly keyboarded by the Perseus Project and processed to become machine-actionable in many ways. Scripts were used to discover and mark up sense distinctions, citations, etc., and to split one entry from the next. That last seems obvious, but in the original typesetting the start of a new entry may just look […]

Alright, so I was struck by the line in Plutarch’s How to Read Poetry (How to Study Poetry in Hunter’s edition), ἐν ἐσθλοῖς δὲ καθήσεσθʼ ἄνολβοι No ††, no comment on καθήσεσθ[ε] in Hunter.   Should you ever feel there is a limit to Greek morphology, sit down for this counter example. Available futures include: καθεδοῦμαι (classical, almost […]

I was working on Strabo recently (for some reason we never had a complete Strabo text from Perseus here in Chicago; just a few books) and now I’m looking at some Plutarch. I’m struck by the very different approaches by two recent editors. Radt’s principle is to follow the editions of the source texts quoted […]

Things to notice in this update: Bailly 2020 – Hugo Chávez has seen numerous corrections and updates, which are now incorporated in Logeion. As always, we are grateful for the help of Mark de Wilde, Gérard Gréco and all the other proofreaders and editors. Did you know that many etymologies in Bailly are the most […]

Are you the kind of nerd that wants to search for only the 3rd person plural, present indicative active of a particular verb? Here’s a clarification on where you can still do those searches, or how you can wrangle PhiloLogic4 to get similar results. It’s easy to leave out possibilities if you do this with […]

Regex stands for regular expressions. Don’t you hate it when you look up a word in a digital dictionary and the entry says, “[meaning], ib. 58”. Or, “Id., 207e”.  It forces you to look at the preceding entry, to figure out what exact citation is meant. Of course, because of the way LSJ was printed, […]

Today I stumbled into an LSJ entry that referred to verpus (sens.obsc.). There is nothing of the sort in Lewis & Short, but check out DMLBS or if you dare, LaNe. I certainly am too prudish to ever use that Dutch noun in its primary sense.🤐😂

(Edited post) Nobody has time, but at some point this century, Plautus will get now has usable line numbers! The script also allowed us to identify the bad stuff that had so far escaped our attention. With thanks to Kasey (see further below!), I present to you Plautus Amphitryo 8, 26, which in fact is, […]

Gems, if not diamonds, still come over the transom at Twitter. This beautiful Easter story about a newly discovered treatise on how to decide the date of Easter: https://twitter.com/chaprot/status/1247541150136676353?s=20 It’s a great thread, not only because it captures a heated debate about when to celebrate (CLEARLY ON THE 25TH OF MARCH, NO CLEARLY ON THE […]