I have just been told that "IT Services is concerned about this software's underlying 16-bit technology. Networked software is recommended to be based on...
Hi, Margaret and group members, I'm not all at familiar with Windows technology or security issues but what it sounds like is that they want to remove some...
Hi! My husband and I are doing research for a course we need to do volunteer work. We are both retired. We found one source on the web as to what the "golden...
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Julian Morgan
Julian@...
May 12, 2004 6:31 pm
Deborah ... I have been on this list for seven years and this is quite the most wonderful question I have ever read on it. Sorry, I have absolutely no idea at...
... For what it's worth, I have always wondered whether the pomegranate might be the fruit in question--not golden, to be sure, but (a) Anacreon speaks of Eros...
Here's another site that might be useful: http://www.magialuna.net/q.html Try using the keywords "golden apple quince", there's a load of info. Chris...
I found a site that claims golden apples are quinces. Here is an excerpt from the site: "QUINCES are ripe on garden bushes. The aromatic fruits on this ...
Hi, all, The main Perseus site at Tufts will be unavailable May 29-31, 2004 due to annual campus-wide electrical maintenance. Please bookmark the mirrors for ...
Does anyone know if Perseus is down today? for how long? Thanks Constanze -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Constanze Witt, PhD Department Of Classics ...
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Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros@...
Jun 11, 2004 3:14 pm
... As you have probably found by now, the Tufts server is up and running again, whereas the Oxford has been down for days, and seems likely to continue so. ...
Hello, Just today (6/14) I have been unable to execute any searches of "English Text" using the Lookup Tool. No matter what terms I enter or what collections I...
Thanks for writing. This is a remnant of some of the problems we had over t= he weekend which is, unfortunately, affecting the main site and both mirrors a= t...
I tried to use the Latin Vocabulary tool earlier, to list the vocabulary from a certain text, and when I pull up the page, there is no box available for me to...
Can anyone recall the source of the following: (more or less) "What a wondrous creature is man?" I had thought Aeschylus or Hesiod, but cannot find it in...
Hi, Searching on translations can be tricky, since every version is slightly different. Always try similar words, or the original language, if you have it. I...
That was a line in a biblical passage I read for my confirmation 45 years ago - perhaps in Psalms. I think that the Bible passage I memorized included the...
Dear Tracy: As you will have noted from several other replies, the line (or a very similar one) is in the Antigone of Sophocles. That is the passage I had in...
More likely you remember it from a High School class reading Shakespeare; try Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2, lines 314ff. But it actually begins with "What a piece of...
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Vittorio Volpi
volpi@...
Jun 23, 2004 8:01 pm
See Shakespeare, Hamlet ii What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action...
Ah hah! I got my Shakespeare and Bible confused. The Bible passage was about man being lower than the angels in Psalm 8. ... Thanks for the clarification! I do...
Dear All, Glad to see the list alive and well with discussion of sources etc. I'm having a frustratating time tracking a source for the story that Zeus created...
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Jeannie
jeannie@...
Jul 9, 2004 3:59 pm
Can anyone tell me, please, how to install fonts from Disk 1 of Platform Independent Perseus onto a Mac running OSX version 3.4 so that the text display will...
Hi, Jeannie, Have you tried dragging the fonts into the Classic System Folder/Fonts folder? Installing them on the OS X side only won't help. Best, Lisa ... --...
Hi Jeannie I think that if you put the fonts in the Mac OS 9 system/fonts folder rather than the OS X fonts folder(s) you may crack it... I havent actually ...
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Jeannie
jeannie@...
Jul 12, 2004 1:43 pm
Thank you very much indeed. This has worked brilliantly. Much appreciated. Lisa, you have given the same advice, which arrived by the same e-mail pickup....
I am having a display problem with the CD version of Perseus 2.0 that is best described by the following display of Iliad 1.1-5 m°nin eide ye Phlhódev...
... That looks to me like a GreekKeys encoded text. The fonts you mention are Unicode fonts. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy ...
Hi, Athenian font should display the text correctly. Open Preference. Configure Fonts. Set the Greek font Athenian. Push Commit Changes Button. If this does...
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Julian Morgan
Julian@...
Aug 11, 2004 3:10 pm
Jack ... This is an old chestnut. I sent the text below to a colleague only the other day - it worked for her. Let's hope it works for you. I guess you have...
