New Latin Texts in Perseus

1 August 2000

Several new Latin texts have been added to the Perseus Digital Library.

Charm, Propertius Book 1, with a new translation by Vincent Katz (Sun and Moon Press: 1995). Perseus is grateful to Mr. Katz for making this translation available to us.
Horace's Satires and Ars Poetica, with a prose translation.
Ovid's Amores, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, and Art of Beauty (Medicamina Faciei Femineae), all with verse translations by John Dryden and his contemporaries, originally published between 1684 and 1710; also the Heroides (Epistles), currently in Latin only. The Amores are also linked to Christopher Marlowe's English translation, edited for Perseus by Hilary Binda.
The poems of Sulpicia, with a translation and commentary. Sulpicia is the only Roman woman poet whose works survive. Other on-line editions of her works include James Bradley's text and commentary, published in the New England Classical Journal for May 1995, the text and commentary by Celia Luschnig and her students in the De Feminis Romanis project within Diotima, and a translation by Lee Pearcy in the Diotima Anthology.

In addition, we have added an Overview of Latin Syntax, by Anne Mahoney, patterned on the popular Overview of Greek Syntax by Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox. This overview gives brief explanations of the most common constructions in Latin, with examples drawn from Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, and Virgil. Names of cases, moods, and tenses in morphological analyses of Latin words are linked to the sections of the overview that explain the uses of those forms. For example, here are the uses of the genitive case. Discussions in the overview include links to more detailed discussions in Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar. The overview also includes sections on word order in prose, periodic sentences, and word order in poetry. This text is not intended as a complete textbook of Latin syntax, but as a reminder and ready reference to the most important syntactic rules and concepts.

Linking to the new texts

As always, you are encouraged to make links from your own site to Perseus texts; see the copyright page for rights information. To construct the URL for a link, use the abbreviated forms of the author's name and, where appropriate, the name of the work, followed by the numbers for the line, book, or chapter. For the new Latin texts, these are the abbreviations:

author abbreviation work abbreviation sample link

Propertius Prop. (n/a) cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=prop.+1.9.1

Horace Hor. Satires S. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=hor.+s.+1.9.1

Ars Poetica Ars cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=hor.+ars+361

Ovid Ov. Amores Am. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=ov.+am.+1.9.1

Ars Amatoria Ars cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=ov.+ars+1.135

Remedia Amoris Rem. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=ov.+rem.+71

Medicamina Faciei Femineae Med. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=ov.+med.+51

Heroides Ep. cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=ov.+ep.+7.133

Sulpicia Sulpicia (n/a) cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=sulpicia+4.1

Prefix the samples in the above table with the address of whichever mirror site is closest to you.

As you page through a Perseus text, the URL your browser shows will contain an internal identifier for the text. Similarly, links among texts within the Perseus Digital Library use internal reference forms. These internal forms are more efficient than the human-readable abbreviations; they encode information about the specific version you are reading (original language or English translation). We recommend that you not copy the URL from your browser's location field and that you not use the internal format for links you create to Perseus texts, because linking by internal document id forces the choice of a particular version, overriding the preferences that the reader has set with the Display Configuration tool.

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Document last updated 29-Jul-00, AEM