Do these help?
http://www.rostra.dk/latin/saxo.html
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/classics203/resources/latin.lex
~ Dan
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Shakespeare, Olson &c
>> Any of you out there who can direct me to a reliable Mediaeval Latin
>> dictionary? I'd be glad to know of one.
>>
>> best joanna
>
> Lewis&Short is FOE via the Perseus project:
>
> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
>
> ... but that's classical Latin rather than Medieval.
>
> There is, I think, an ongoing Medieval Latin dictionary in hardcopy, which
> has reached somewhere about fascile T. But as Joanna knows more about
> this
> than anyone else on the list, why she's asking, other than the triumph of
> hope over experience, *I* don't know.
>
> With the exception of the OED, the Web is actually rather well served with
> dictionaries that deal with medieval English, both the Ann Arbor one and
> the
> conflated DOST/SND. And let's not forget (post-medieval but with a truly
> medieval search engine) the sixteen pre-1650 dictionaries concorded in the
> EMEDD.
>
> Joanna's post about said it all about the demon/daimon distinction (and
> Martin, could you provide a locus for Jung on daimons, pretty please?
> Seven
> Sermons Against the Dead?)
>
> The esoteric spin (and I still haven't forgiven Martin blindsiding me
> here)
> is the place of Daemons in the Nine Levels of the Celestial Hierarchy.
>
> The obvious lucus is Burton, drawing on Thomas Stanley's 17thC +History of
> Philosophy+, going back via the later (neo)Platonists to Chaldean
> astrology.
>
> Tristram
>
> Says Robert Burton in "A Digression of Spirits":
>
> Plato, for he relying wholly on Socrates, _quem mori potius
> quam mentiri voluisse scribit_, whom he says would rather die than tell a
> falsehood, out of Socrates' authority alone, made nine kinds of them:
> which
> opinion belike Socrates took from Pythagoras, and he from Trismegistus, he
> from Zoroastes, first God, second idea, 3. Intelligences, 4. Arch-Angels,
> 5. Angels, 6. Devils, 7. Heroes, 8. Principalities, 9. Princes: of which
> some were absolutely good, as gods, some bad, some indifferent _inter deos
> et homines_, as heroes and daemons, which ruled men, and were called
> genii,
> or as [1171]Proclus and Jamblichus will, the middle betwixt God and men.
> Principalities and princes, which commanded and swayed kings and
> countries;
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/8/0/10800/10800.txt
>
> Buggered my brains that, and it even baffled my thesis supervisor Dinos
> Patrides.
>
> Jinx or Jinges? It has to ultimately derive from some nutty loop in
> Chaldean
> astrology.
>
> I blame Psellus.
>
> Just a thot.
>
> R.
>
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