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> From: Jessalynn Bird <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 2:27 PM
> Subject: quote help
>
> >Dear sapientes,
> >
> >I am finishing up an annotated transription of James of Vitry's sermons to
> >hospitallers for an article and am having trouble identifying two
> >references, despite consulting the usual databases. One is a supposed
> >quote from Seneca, which begins "Quantum addis..." Is there a classical
> >equivalent of the PL or CETEDOC which would allow me to trace this quote?
The Packard Humanities Institute CD-ROM #5, of Classical Latin authors
(plus some biblical and Coptic stuff), 1991 edition, does not contain this
sequence of words in exactly that form for any of the authors covered,
including Seneca the elder and Seneca the younger. A search of "quant" and
"add" in close proximity turns up something from Seneca the younger, Ep.
32.3.1 -- ...et cogita quantum additurum celeritati fueris ... -- if that
is of any help.
This CD-ROM (or a more recent edition) may still be available and can be
read by various programs on IBM and Mac type machines, as well as the
antique IBYCUS PC (which is what I still use). There are also programs to
offload texts from what is essentially (except for the passage
identifications) a "text only" (ASCII) resource -- that is, you can view
the texts through any display engine (Word, List, etc.), but you would
have a difficult time knowing where you are in the text without special
code interpreters for the IDs (author, book, chapter, verse). The PHI and
TLG formats are identical (PHI also has a CD-ROM for the Duke-Michigan
Documentary Papyri Data Base).
> There is a computer called Ibycus developed in the 80s thats lets you search
> all Classical Greek and Latin texts (and I think Coptic too). Also the
> Thesaurus Linguae Grecae has CD-ROMs that have all Latin and Greek
> literature that you can search through Musaios.
>
> Prof. Philip Rusche
This will doubtless help jog Grover Zinn's overworked memory as well! :-)
Bob
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