medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Paul Chandler write:
: This may be old news for the well-informed,
: but I just discovered that the freeware program
: Diogenes now includes an electronic version of
: Lewis & Short's Latin Dictionary. It is the same
: version as on the Perseus site, but can be used
: off-line and is blazingly fast. Diogenes can also
: be used to search the TLG Greek and PHI Latin
: texts if you have them.
:
<http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/>
It is worth noting two further things about Peter
Heslin's fine Diogenes 3.1.6 (the latest version),
which is also now the software recommended for TLG and
PHI disk searches by the American Philological
Association (according to a notice in their August 2008
/Newsletter/, p. 10, and following discontinuation of
development of their Pandora application for Mac):
1) In addition to the electronic Lewis & Short from
Perseus, for ancient Greek Diogenes also includes
Perseus' electronic Liddell-Scott-Jones /Greek-English
Lexicon/, which is the 9th edition (1940 - this is the
most recent edition, although there have been a
Supplement and more recently in 1996 a Revised
Supplement that serious linguists would want to
consult), and for both Latin and Greek the Perseus
morphological data. This means that, if one has a TLG
or PHI disk, one can click a word in a text to get
morphological analysis and the dictionary entry.
However, it is important to note that one does NOT have
to have access to any one of the corpora Diogenes is
designed to search in order to use the dictionaries:
whether or not one has any of the corpora, one simply
selects "Look up a word in the dictionary" as "Action",
and "PHI Latin corpus" or "TLG texts" as "Corpus" for
the appropriate language, even if one hasn't either
corpus installed. Greek can be input in a variety of
formats, including Unicode.
2) Diogenes is released under the GNU General Public
License, which means that it may be freely copied,
installed, redistributed, and modified to one's own
purposes. It is available in native installer packages
for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. These are large files
(62 to 68 MB depending on platform), so need decent
broadband to download; however, due to the nature of
the licence it would be perfectly acceptable for an
institution to download the software and distribute
copies to students or staff on CD, for example. In
addition, Dr Heslin has made available alongside the
platform-specific packages tarballs of the source code
with and without the additional data (dictionaries,
etc.).
The direct URL for the downloadable files is long, so
I've created a TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/diogenes316
which leads (as do the download links on the Diogenes
site) to:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=145496&package_id=160082&release_id=548757
Those who want to thank Dr Heslin for his software, ask
questions, etc., can do so by e-mail to his address as
listed on the Diogenes pages at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/thanks_contacts.php
or on his university staff page at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/staff/?id=96
Terrence Lockyer
Johannesburg, South Africa
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