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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?
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.
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Prof. Philip Rusche
English Dept -- UNLV
4505 Maryland Pkwy, Box 455011
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5011
U.S.A.
phone: 702-895-3473
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>
>The other is an allusion to the life of St. Anthony, where lions assist
>him in burying the hermit Zozimas and St. Mary of Egypt. Despite
>consulting Athanasius' life of St. Anthony, I found no reference to it. I
>suspect that it may be in the Lives of the Desert Fathers, but am unsure
>what is the standard edition to consult.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated and formally acknowledged!
>
>
>
>Jessalynn Bird
>
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