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The Perseus Digital Library, formerly known as the Perseus Project, is a free-access digital library founded by Gregory Crane in 1987 and hosted by the Department of Classical Studies of Tufts University. One of the pioneers of digital libraries, its self-proclaimed mission is to make the full record of humanity available to everyone.
Tufts University, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. [10] [ permanent dead link ] Prototype of wordnets for Latin and ancient Greek developed with the Perseus Project and Federico Boschetti and Monica Monachini of the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" in Pisa.
Logeion is an open-access database of Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries. [1] Developed by Josh Goldenberg and Matt Shanahan in 2011, it is hosted by the University of Chicago . Apart from simultaneous search capabilities across different dictionaries and reference works, Logeion offers access to frequency and collocation data from the ...
Cynossema (Ancient Greek: Κυνὸς σῆμα and Κυνόσσημα) [1] and Cynosemon (Κυνόσημον), [2] meaning Dog's Tomb, was a promontory on the eastern coast of the Thracian Chersonesus, near the town of Madytus.
A bustuarius (plural: bustuarii) was a kind of gladiator in Ancient Rome, who fought about the funeral pyre (Latin: bustum) of the deceased at a Roman funeral. [1] [2] [3] Bustuarii were considered of even lower status than other gladiators whose fights were exhibited in public gladiatorial games. [4]
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Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
Latin: "The die has been cast"; Greek: "Let the die be cast." Julius Caesar as reported by Plutarch, when he entered Italy with his army in 49 BC. Translated into Latin by Suetonius as alea iacta est. Ἄνθρωπος μέτρον. Ánthrōpos métron. "Man [is] the measure [of all things]" Motto of Protagoras (as quoted in Plato's Theaetetus ...