On 4 Aug 2015, at 23:43, Jim O'Donnell wrote:
> I would be especially glad to hear reports of the work being put to
> use in
> a scholarly way, viz., as a unique source of information about Livy
> and his
> language
I don't honestly remember the precise source as I had more than one but
my late 1990s PhD on Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus (which became 'Rome's
Religious History') depended completely on being able to search the
texts across multiple files with wildcards (aka GREP, aka Regex). In
other words I could search almost instantly for every instance of a word
irrespective of inflection by saying 'search for:
seru then any of 'um o i' (and further refinements to weed out false
positives.)
I was literally laughed at by some scholars for this infantile
new-fangledness (as well as my silly 'doomed' Apple laptop), all of whom
eventually came to me to search an author's texts for a particular
hard-to-find reference (eg combinations of words);)
I thanked the software company in the abstract (Bare Bones, for BBEdit)
for all their help getting what became pretty arcane searches to work.
I didn't know of anyone else doing it at the time but I imagine now it's
virtually standard (?)
cheers
Jason
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