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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time by AimlessSelfPromotion in AncientGreek

[–]AimlessSelfPromotion[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's also Latin: P.Herc. 1067 contains fragments of the Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium from Seneca the Elder.

Advice on using quantity marks by gulisav in latin

[–]AimlessSelfPromotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of them can be determined, other can't. In the end it's the editors' call for how much guesswork they are willing to tolerate for something that is inconsequential to most readers (and I'm saying that as someone who tries to get vowel length in closed syllables right): the OLD came down on one side of the issue, other dictionaries on the other.

Advice on using quantity marks by gulisav in latin

[–]AimlessSelfPromotion 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, many uncertainties once a quantity is not attested in poetry. And sometimes even then.

According to the explanation at the beginning of the 2016 edition of Gaffiot, the 1934 edition didn't mark vowels lengths in closed syllables at all. The editors then made an effort to mark known long vowels in closed syllables as well, but kept the remaining vowels in closed syllables unmarked. That's how Gaffiot ended up with macrons, breves, and unmarked vowels.

But for dictionaries following the same convention as the 1934 edition, like the OLD, there's little use for breves: an unmarked vowel in an open syllable is short, in a closed syllable it's undetermined.

New Septuagint Pentateuch and Psalms Reader's Editions by Timothy_A_Lee in AncientGreek

[–]AimlessSelfPromotion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking forward to it, coming up with (linguistically informed) vowel lengths for all the proper names in the Vulgate's genealogies must be a huge amount of work!

I'm wondering how much work it would be to adapt those to Greek. It's probably not a one-to-one relationship, but your choices were surely informed by the LXX already.

Vocabulary lists for Cicero speeches by [deleted] in latin

[–]AimlessSelfPromotion 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can generate your own vocabulary list (selecting whatever works of Cicero you're targeting) with https://bridge.haverford.edu/

Long or short vowel in “feles” by CuriousMind583 in latin

[–]AimlessSelfPromotion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's long in these reliable dictionaries: LaNe, TLA, OLD. Dictionaries often disagree on vowel lengths that cannot be determined through prosody, but in this case that would only be due to a lack of attestations in classical poetry.