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CHAPTER 8, part 2: PHILOLOGICAL TOOLS




8.4 PHILOLOGICAL TOOLS

Eight Philological Tools are available to explore the vocabulary, grammar, syntax, usage, and word frequencies in ancient Greek. They are:

* Morphological Analysis
* Greek-English Lexicon
* Greek Word Search
* Greek Words in Proximity
* English-Greek Word Search
* Greek Dictionary Entry Search
* Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview
* Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author

8.4.1 KEY TERMS: WORDS, STRINGS, FORMS AND DICTIONARY ENTRIES

The Philological Tools provide support for quite powerful and sophisticated analysis of the source in Perseus. Before using these tools, it is important to distinguish between several different kinds of "word."

This paragraph contains 123 words. If you read through it from start to finish, counting each word as you read it, you would end up with a total of 123. In some contexts, however, we might mean that the entire paragraph contains only 74 "unique" words: i.e., the English word "the" would count only once, no matter how often it showed up in the text. Again, we must take account of grammatically inflected forms. Do "went," "gone" and "going" all count as unique words or only as forms of the verb "to go"? In Perseus, word-count frequencies are a total of all words in the text, repeated and inflected. Words in the lexical tools are reached via the form given in their dictionary entry headings, rather than their inflected forms.

The following definitions will be useful:

Strings: Any collection of letters strung together is a "string." A string can be a full word (e.g., "philological") or a word fragment ("philol-", "-ologic-", "-ical") or both ("logic" is both a word in its own right and a substring of "philological"). Virtually all of the tools developed for searching Greek texts (and many of those for English as well) search not for words, but for strings embedded in words. Thus "go" will retrieve "goes" and "gone" but not "went," and there is no convenient way to locate all forms of an irregular word (e.g., "is", "was", "be" etc.). While this problem may be a nuisance in English (which retains relatively few endings), in a highly inflected language such as classical Greek, string based searching can be especially frustrating. The remedy for this is Perseus's Morphological database, which has the ability to trace the irregular forms to their dictionary entry.

Inflected Forms and Dictionary Entries: The forms "goes", "going" and "gone" are all inflected forms that belong to the same word, "go." The philological tools distinguish sharply between inflected forms and their dictionary entries. One of the major achievements of the Perseus database is that it allows users to deal not only with strings and inflected forms but with dictionary entries as well: thus, you can perform the Greek equivalent of asking for "go" and retrieve "goes", "gone", and "went."

A note on typing Greek: While cutting and pasting Greek text into a field may serve in most cases as a workaround, you will find that the ability to type correctly accented Greek is indispensible in making the most efficient use of the Philological Tools. Perseus supports the SMK GreekKeys font, which must be installed in your system. Information on ordering GreekKeys may be found in section 2.1.2. The Greek characters generally correspond to the Roman ones, with . The accents live "under" the numbers and are typed in combination with the Option key before the vowel is typed. The Greek alphabet, its transliteration into Roman characters, and its GreekKeys equivalents may be found in Online help under the Stack Topic, The Greek Alphabet.

8.4.2 DESCRIPTION AND LIMITATIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL TOOLS

Underlying the Philological Tools is a morphological database that was created by parsing every Greek word in the Perseus Primary Texts and storing the results. In it there are 3.4 million words, but only 260,000 unique strings -- in other words, each inflected form shows up on the average 13 times. Each of these forms has been processed by the morphological analysis system developed by the Perseus Project. Its tables of nominal and verbal stems are based upon those in the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. While we have added many words to our morphological database that are not in Liddell-Scott, there are still some words in Perseus 2.0 for which we do not have any morphological analysis. This will change in coming years as we extract morphological information from the larger Greek Lexicon, the ninth edition of Liddell-Scott-Jones. The table below shows the success rate for analyzing all forms in Perseus.

Table 8.1 Success rate for analyzing forms in Perseus.

The database provides a foundation for the Philological Tools and allows you to perform two strategic functions. First, you can analyze any word in a text (except all but 31% of proper nouns), and second, you can investigate all instances of a Greek word across the range of texts. Together, these two strategies allow you to investigate Greek words in Perseus texts with greater precision than has been possible heretofore, even with electronic tools.

The Morphological Analysis tool can only recognize forms. It is not aware of the syntax of a sentence. If a form has more than one possible analysis, the only thing that the morphological analyzer can do is to list all applicable parses. It is not able to identify the syntactically correct form. Therefore, several of the Philological Tools display two sets of statistical results: one that takes into account only unambiguous forms with one possible parse, and another that includes all forms, ambiguous and unambiguous. Thus, faced with a form such as , the Morphological Analysis tool simply reports that this could be either the dative singular of the noun , "shame," or one of several forms of the verb , "to cause shame." The English equivalent is to recognize "fly" as either a noun or a verb but to leave it to the user to sort out the ambiguity between these two choices by using the context. (For more information on this, see the discussion of the Morphological Analysis tool below.) It is important to keep this in mind when working with the Philological Tools.

All of the Philological Tools allow you to enter your own word or string, in Greek or English (as appropriate). Although the Philological Tools allow the user to enter a word or string, they are primarily used by selecting text within another Perseus resource (Greek or English text depending on the tool to be activated), then choosing the desired tool from the Links menu. If any text is selected when a tool is activated, that tool will try to act on the selected text. To type accented Greek text, you must have SMK GreekKeys 7.0 installed in your system (information on where to buy GreekKeys is in chapter 2.1.2). You must be precise in typing accents and diacritical marks for the morphological tools to recognize the word (unless otherwise specified).

8.4.3 CALCULATING FREQUENCIES

Because the length of texts varies, a dictionary entry whose forms appear 100 times in Demosthenes and 30 times in Lysias is actually more common in Lysias, because our corpus of Demosthenes is five times larger than that of Lysias (c. 300,000 vs. 60,000 words). For this reason, Perseus reports, wherever possible, not only the instances (i.e., the absolute frequency, how many times a dictionary entry appears in a given author, or 100 for Demosthenes and 30 for Lysias in the above example), but also the relative frequency (frequencies/10,000 words). In other words, we take into consideration the differing sizes of the texts in Perseus 2.0 so that you can compare the frequency of words more effectively. For each dictionary entry in each text, we determine the rate at which it appears in for every 10,000 words in a given text. Thus, in the above example, the frequencies/10,000 words would be 3.33 for Demosthenes and 5 for Lysias.

Some inflected forms are, however, "lexically ambiguous," i.e., they can come from more than one dictionary entry (e.g., Greek can be an inflected form of either the noun , "shame," or of the verb , "to cause shame"). Each frequency thus has both a maximum and a minimum. The maximum "instances" and "freqs/10,000 words" assumes that all possible inflected forms of a dictionary entry really do belong to that entry (if you are searching for the verb , assume that is a verbal form). The minimum figure assumes that none of the lexically ambiguous inflected forms belong to the dictionary entry (if you are searching for the verb , assume that is not an inflected form of this verb). If the maximum and minimum frequencies are the same, then all the possible forms of the dictionary entry are lexically unambiguous. On the other hand, if the maximum and minimum frequencies are different, then you will have to use your judgment to determine the true frequency of the dictionary entry.

8.4.4 RELATED TOOLS BUTTON

Since the eight philological tools are all in the Links menu, they are available anywhere in Perseus. Some of these philological tools are, however, particularly useful in different positions, and each of the eight philological tools contains a Related Tools pop-up menu in the upper right hand corner of the screen. The Related Tools menu lists other philological tools which are particularly relevant to the tool that you are currently using.

8.4.5 OVERVIEW OF THE PHILOLOGICAL TOOLS

The Philological Tools are functionally linked to each other for maximum flexibility.

The eight Philological Tools are described below. They divide into four basic groups:

1) Morphological Analysis and Greek-English Lexicon: When working with a text you can use the Morphological Analysis tool to find out the grammatical function of a form and the Greek-English Lexicon to find out its meaning.

2) Greek Word Search and Greek Words in Proximity: These tools allow you to locate passages in which one or more particular dictionary entries appear.

3) English-Greek Word Search and Greek Dictionary Entry Search: These tools allow you to locate Greek words (or groups of Greek words) for further study.

4) Greek Word Freqs -- Overview and Greek Word Freqs -- by Author: These tools allow you to explore quantitative differences in usage between different authors, genres and periods.

Morphological Analysis
Enter an inflected Greek form to find out its possible morphological analyses and what dictionary entries it might come from.

Not only will beginning and intermediate students of the Greek language find the morphological analysis helpful, but advanced students also will find this tool indispensible in determining the precise dictionary entry for a form: your can find out quickly whether LSJ list the words under or , or , or or .

Selecting English text or proper nouns will result in a message that no analysis is offered for this word.

Greek-English Lexicon
Enter a Greek word in its dictionary form to find its definitions. The Perseus Greek-English Lexicon is based on the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon.

You must provide the exact spelling to locate an entry. You can use the Morphological Analysis tool or the Greek Dictionary Entry Search tool to help locate the right spelling.

Looking for an English word or an inflected Greek form in the Greek-English Lexicon will result in a message that the selected text is not in the dictionary.

Greek Word Search
Enter a dictionary entry or a string to find the texts containing it in Perseus. Greek Word Search gives the citations for each word and links you directly with the passage. Thus, you can, for example, search for and retrieve and , or you can search for and retrieve , , , etc.

Searching for English text will result in a message that the lemma is not used in the selected author's works.

Greek Words in Proximity
With this tool, you can make two lists of dictionary entries and identify all passages in which any possible form from list 1 appears within a given number of words of any possible form from list 2.
English-Greek Word Search
This tool allows you to search for words within a semantic category. For example, suppose you are interested in Greek words for "money" or "ship" or "statue." You can use this tool to locate probable equivalents and convert the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon into a rough, but powerful, English-Greek lexicon.

The English-Greek Word Search searches in the Greek lexicon for words whose definition contains the selected word. Any italicized text in a dictionary entry from the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon is treated as a definition, and in using this tool you are, in effect, consulting an index of English words from this lexicon.

Greek Dictionary Entry Search
You can use the Greek Dictionary Entry Search to locate individual dictionary entries or groups of dictionary entries. Use the Greek Dictionary Entry Search to find out precisely how a Greek dictionary entry is spelled ( or , or , for example). Again, you can locate all dictionary entries that contain a certain string: those ending in or , or that contain the string (e.g., or ), or (e.g., , , ). Finally, if you want to do a Greek Word Search, but lack a convenient way of typing accents because you do not have SMK GreekKeys installed, you can obtain the form with the Greek Dictionary Entry Search.

You can go from the Greek Dictionary Entry Search tool to any of the other Philological Tools.

Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview
The Greek Word Frequencies tool displays the statistical frequencies with which a particular Greek word is used among all the Greek authors in Perseus. This tool will provide you with the totals for a list of words, often with interesting results: A search in the Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview for , "cat" produces 7 instances for all of Greek within Perseus. Perhaps not unsurpringly, six fall in Herodotus 2, a book devoted to Egypt. The seventh is in Aristophanes; in what context will appear?
Greek Word Frequencies -- by Author
The Greek-Word Frequencies -- by Author tool allows you to compose a list of words and then see which and how often these words occur in a particular author. Because Perseus keeps the word list in its memory, the query can be repeated for each author in the database.

8.4.6 MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS TOOL

The Morphological Analysis tool parses Greek word forms, showing the dictionary form (lemma) and related analysis. The Morphological Analysis tool is available directly from Primary Text displays through the Analyze button, from the Links menu, and from the Gateway via the Tools & References icon.

This tool retrieves a morphological analysis, not a syntactic analysis, of the Greek word. If the form you are analyzing could be formed from more than one word, the Morphological Analysis tool will display all possible lemmas and analyses. It does not indicate which one is correct for the particular form you selected.

If you have chosen Morphological Analysis from the Tools & References Index or the Links menu, you must enter a word to analyze. If you are in a Primary Text and want to analyze a word, highlight it and click the Analyze button. The tool will automatically parse that word.

The examples used below will trace through the analysis of words selected from a Primary Text and from Philological Tools.

> Analyze forms from Pindar's First Olympian Ode.

Go to Pindar First Olympian in the Primary Texts by releasing the mouse on the item Lookup under the Links menu. Type Pind. O. 1.1 into the box and press Return.

Highlight the Greek word .

Click the button Analyze, upper right. The Morphological Analysis card appears with the form above, the lemma (dictionary form) in boldface type in the middle, and the grammatical analysis below (figure 8.12).

Figure 8.12 Morphological Analysis showing Related Tools pop-up menu.

Explanation of the parse abbreviation "pres inf act epic doric" is given in Online help for Morphological Analysis.

To find the meaning of , highlight it. Then choose Greek-English Lexicon from the pop-up menu Related Tools. You may highlight the lemma and go to the other Philological Tools under the Related Tools pop-up menu, described below. These include Greek Word Search, Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview and Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author.

To return to the text of Pindar, click the Go Back arrow on the Navigator Palette.

> Analyze a form directly from the Morphological Analysis card.

Type into the Form field, and click Analyze to parse the word (figure 8.13).

Figure 8.13 Morphological Analysis tool.

To type Greek text, you must have SMK GreekKeys installed in your system. You must be precise in typing accents and diacritical marks using SMK GreekKeys.

Here the word analysis results in three lemmas.

Related Tools
The Related Tools button in the upper right hand corner relates the Morphological Analysis tool to other Philological Tools. If you select text from the morphological analysis before choosing another tool, the new tool will apply itself to the selection. Figure 8.13 illustrates the choices available here.

The four related tools are those which work with one or more dictionary entries. In the example above using , if you select one of the three lemmas (dictionary entries) and then call up one of these four related tools, Perseus will automatically paste the selected dictionary entry into the selected tool.

If you do not select anything and call up the Greek-English Lexicon or the Greek Word Search tools, nothing will be pasted into them.

On the other hand, Greek Word Frequency tools will look up all lemmas listed if you do not select one of the lemmas, in this case, all three.

Limitations
1) The Morphological Analysis Tool is not context sensitive.

* It makes no attempt to determine whether a form such as is a substantive or a verb.

* If it sees a form such as , it recognizes this as a possible present indicative or imperative, but it also reports that this could be an unaugmented Epic or Ionic. Even if you are reading an Attic author such as Demosthenes, it still reports the possible Epic and Ionic interpretation because you may, for example, be looking at a form from a piece of quoted poetry.

2) The Morphological Analysis Tool seeks every possible morphological analysis for every form that it examines. With 30,000 stems, 10,000 inflections and rules for coping with several Greek dialects, some of the morphological analyses can be surprising.

3 The Mophological Analysis Tool does not systematically cover proper names. Its can recognize 22,000 of the 32,000 proper names in Perseus 2.0, a success rate of 69%.

Our morphological database is based on the morphological information from the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, a reference tool which covers only a small number of proper names. While we have added morphological information for over 10,000 additional words, we continue to systematically add proper names.

4) The Morphological Analysis tool has been taught to recognize many words that are not in the Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, but it still is not complete. It can recognize 223,000 out of the 228,000 unique strings in Perseus 2.0, a success rate of 98%.

8.4.7 GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON The Greek-English Lexicon contains the Greek and English definitions from the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. The Greek-English Lexicon is entered from the Links menu, from the Gateway via the Tools & References icon, and from the Related Tools pop-up menu in the various Philological Tools.

Figure 8.14 Greek-English Lexicon.

> Look up the meaning of in Pindar's First Olympian.

Go to Pindar First Olympian in the Primary Texts by choosing Lookup from the Links menu. Type Pind. O. 1.1 into the box and press Return.

Highlight the Greek word in line 7. Click Analyze. On the Morphological Analysis card, highlight the lemma , then choose Greek-English Lexicon from the Related Tools pop-up menu.

Alternatively you can look up lemmas by typing them directly into the Entry field if you have SMK GreekKeys 7.0 installed in your system. Click the "Entry" field to make the insertion point appear. Then click Look Up to see a definition of the word. You can paste in a Greek word (in its dictionary form).

The Greek-English Lexicon displays the entry for a word as it appears in the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (figure 8.11). The first field lists the definitions.

The buttons See Previous Entry and See Following Entry move backward and forward in the Lexicon.

The "Derived From" field lists explicit cross-references between dictionary entries. In practice, any word or brief phrase enclosed in parentheses at the beginning of a dictionary article in the lexicon will be placed in the Derived From entry. Thus in the following entry:

() appears in Perseus thus (figure 8.15):

Figure 8.15 Derived from: field.

Note that the Greek-English lexicon does not always include derivations in this parenthetical information. Consider, for example, the following entry in the print dictionary:

This entry defines a homonymous relationship, i.e., the verb has the same meaning as . In Perseus, the "=" reference also appears in the Derived From field.

The other three fields on this card include information derived from, but not explicit in, the print version of the lexicon. These fields provide machine generated indexes to help you make connections between words.

The Source For field lists words produced by the Entry word. In the example above, is given as derived from . If you call up the entry for , you will find in the Source For field, along with , < and , other words produced by (figure 8.16).

Figure 8.16 Source for: field.

The field bottom left lists other possible forms of this dictionary entry that show up in other dictionary articles. Thus for , the other possible forms are, and (figure 8.14). Click and the forms and are displayed in the field Appears In lower right. This means that the form appears in the definitions, and is used in an idiomatic citation, under the entries for and . Figure 8.17 below shows the results of clicking in the field Other possible forms in the lexicon: the forms , and are displayed in the field Appears In, lower right. To go to the dictionary entry, click a word from the Appears In field, then click the button Look Up.

Figure 8.17 Other possible forms from the lemma that appear in the definitions of other dictionary Entries.

> Find a citation for in the definition for the entry .

From the Greek-English Lexicon entry for , click in the field Other possible forms in the lexicon, bottom left. Click , then click Look Up. Perseus will highlight in the definition for (figure 8.17).

Figure 8.18 in the definition of .

The computer is able to create a link between the entry for and the appropriate citation in the article for , and the user can thus study an idiomatic usage of cited in another entry of the lexicon.
Related Tools

Figure 8.19 The Related Tools Menu

The Related Tools suggest the following options. (1) You can call up the Morphological Analysis tool to get the analysis for an inflected form in one of the definitions; (2) you can select an English word and use the "English-Greek Word Search" to see which other Greek dictionary articles contain this word in their definitions; (3) you can search for, or see the frequencies of, a given dictionary entry in Perseus authors.
Limitations
The Greek-English Lexicon is based on the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. We have definitions for c. 35,000 words, but the Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon is not exhaustive and thus there are a number of words in Perseus for which the Lexicon has no definitions.

8.4.8 GREEK WORD SEARCH

The Greek Word Search tool allows you to search for Greek words in Perseus texts. It contains features which represent a significant improvement over the basic string searching to which classicists have become accustomed, because it draws on the morphological database to give all inflected forms in the results, even those from a different stem. (For a definition of "strings" please see section 8.4.1.)

Figure 8.20 Greek Word Search: in Aeschylus.

The Greek Word Search (figure 8.20) displays citations for all forms of the selected Greek word in a particular author's works - in this case, in Aeschylus. Note forms from the future and aorist stems appearing in the results field, left.

In the field Look for, paste or (if you have SMK GreekKeys installed) type in a Greek word or string of characters to search for. (Strings are defined in section 8.4.1.)

Choose an author to search in by choosing any author from the pop-up menu (figure 8.21).

Figure 8.21 Author pop-up menu in Greek Word Search.

Search Type
There are several options for performing searches, obtained from the pop-up menu Search Type (figure 8.22). With the item All forms from a Dictionary Entry, which shows up by default as Dictionary Entry, you can search for all forms of a word in an author. The items Forms with these starting characters and Forms with these ending characters allow you to perform searches for forms that match the beginning or ending strings of characters. With the item Forms with this substring, you can search for words sharing the matching string in any position in the word.

Figure 8.22 Search Type pop-up menu.

To perform the search, click the button Do Search.
Options
When the search is complete, the Options pop-up menu will appear, which presents you with a variety of ways to sort and classify the search results and author citations (figure 8.23).

Figure 8.23 Options pop-up menu in Greek Word Search.

The item Citations for All Forms brings up a list of all citations in Perseus for the targeted word. To go to one of the cited passages, select it and click the button Go To Text, upper right.

To retrieve citations for just one form, select it and choose Citations for Selected Form from the Options pop-up menu. To go to one of the cited passages, select it and click the button Go To Text, upper right.

To parse a form, select it and choose Morphological Analysis for Selected Form from the Options pop-up menu. To return to Greek Word Search, click the Go Back arrow on the Navigator Palette.

The list of forms can be sorted alphabetically, by frequency or with the ambiguous forms at the top. Choose Sort Forms by Frequency, Sort Forms Alphabetically or Show Ambiguous Firms First.

To discard one of the forms from the list of results, select it and choose Delete Selected Form.

Statistical Information
When a search has been performed, the Greek Word Search produces a line of statistics about the instances and frequency of the dictionary form of the word in the selected author's works. Figure 8.24 shows the statistics for in Aeschylus.

Figure 8.24 Greek Word Search statistics.

There are 31 forms derived from in the works of Aeschylus. Words in Perseus represents the total number of words in Aeschylus in the Perseus database, 40,088. The Maximum Instances is the number of forms of including ambiguous forms. The Minimum Instances is the number of forms of without ambiguous forms. (In the illustration above, both are 59 because there are no ambiguous forms.) Frequency is the number of instances per 10,000 words, 14.71.

To see statistics of this type on a particular word among all the Primary Text authors, use the tool Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview, available under the pop-up menu Related Tools, upper right.

Related Philological Tools
The Greek Word Search is linked with the other Philological Tools via the Related Tools pop-up menu in the upper right. If you select Greek text from the Greek Word Search, then choose Morphological Analysis, Greek-English Lexicon or Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview from the Related Tools pop-up menu, the new tool will apply itself to the selection.
Limitations
1) A search for a word in all Perseus authors (global search) would often produce results far beyond the capabilities of HyperCard. Until the software is developed, we suggest that you use the Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview feature to see in what authors a word shows up, then use Greek Word Search, proceding author by author.

2) Some of the most common words in Greek are not indexed:

Neither Greek Word Search (nor the Greek Words in Proximity Search) search Greek texts directly. Instead, they rely upon indexes of the Perseus texts. To limit the size of the indexes, some of the most common words have not been included (see the table below). If you wish to study these words, you must use Pandora or some other search tool for the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.


Table 8.2 Forms not indexed, and thus not searchable, in Perseus.

Pandora 2.5.2 is available from Scholars' Press Software, c/o Professional Book Distributors, P.O. Box 6996, Alpharetta GA 30239-6996, (800) 437-6692 or (404) 442-8633, (404) 442-9742 FAX.

For information on the TLG cd-rom, please contact Theodore F. Brunner, Director, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA, (714) 824-7031, (714) 824-8434 FAX, Email tbrunner@uci.edu.

3) Lexical Ambiguity

Remember that Perseus makes no attempt to determine whether a form such as is from the noun or the verb . Thus, the form will show up in searches for both the noun and the verb .

8.4.9 GREEK WORDS IN PROXIMITY This tool allows you to locate passages in which any form from one list of dictionary entries appears within a given number of words of a form from a second list of dictionary entries.

The Greek Words in Proximity tool is available from the Links menu and by clicking the Tools & References icon in the Gateway. The tool itself is constructed on two cards: the card appearing first (figure 8.25) contains the author lists, operating buttons and results fields; the second card (figure 8.26) contains fields for entering and editing search lists.

Figure 8.25 Greek Words in Proximity

An overview of how to use the Greek Words in Proximity tool is given in this paragraph. Examples of searches are given below. From the first card, go to the Edit Lists card by clicking the button Enter/Edit Dictionary Lists. Type or paste in your choices into lists 1 and 2 (figure 8.26), and return to the first card by clicking Done, upper right.

Figure 8.26 Greek Words in Proximity: Edit Lists.

Now choose an author from the author list on the first card. To perform the search, click Do Search. Results appear in the field below, along with statistics. To go to a citation, select it and click the button Go To Text.

> Find the words and within a proximity of 10 words in Homer.

Go to the Greek Words in Proximity tool by choosing this item from the Links menu. Or from the Gateway, click the Tools & References icon, then click Greek Words in Proximity under the topic Philological Tools.

To bring up the Edit Lists card, click the button Enter/Edit Dictionary Lists. If Lists 1 and 2 contain words from a previous search, click the buttons Clear List 1 and Clear List 2.

If you are equipped to type accented Greek, put the cursor into the field of List 1 and type , then put the cursor into the field of List 2 and type . Enter the numbers of words in proximity of which the search will take place (10) in the box at the bottom. Click Done.

Note that this tool will only work with the properly accented dictionary entry (lemma) of the words to be searched. If you cannot type accented Greek with GreekKeys, or if you are unsure of the proper accent and spelling, click the button Greek Dictionary Entry Search. Locate the cursor in the Look Up field, type (no accents, no final sigma), and release the mouse on the item Words with this Substring as the kind of Dictionary Entry Search to make (figure 8.27).

Figure 8.27 Greek Dictionary Entry search with proper form of .

Now select in the results field below and choose the item Greek Words in Proximity from the pop-up menu Related Tools, upper right. A dialog window will ask you which list you want entered into (figure 8.28). Click List 1. If you wish to cancel the request, click Neither. A further dialog may appear asking whether to add or replace your selection to the list. In this case, click Replace; if you wish to accumulate a longer list for Perseus to search, click Add.

If you have just completed the task of accumulating a long list of words from all over Perseus, you can now alphabetize your list by clicking the buttons Sort List 1 and Sort List 2.

Figure 8.28 Dialog window with queryfor word list.

will now be entered in List 1. Follow the same proceedure for in List 2.

If you have selected a form from one of the Primary Texts in Perseus, for example, you can obtain the lemma by clicking the button Analyze. The Morphological Analysis tool will find the lemma for you. Now click the lemma () and choose the item Greek Words in Proximity under the pop-up menu Related Tools. As above, a dialog window will ask which List you wish to add the word to. Make the choice and Perseus will return you to the Edit List card.

Now that your list of words to search is complete, type the number words in proximity, 10, into box at the bottom. Click Done to return to the first card. Alternatively, click Cancel to return to the first card without making any changes.

and will now be displayed in the fields Dictionary Entries in List. Choose Homer fro the Choose Another Author pop-up menu. To perform the search, click the button Do Search. Perseus will find two citations for in proximity with in Homer:

Hom. Il. 1.1 , range=10

Hom. Il. 21.523 , range=4

In the first citation, a form of occurs within ten words of the form of in the second citation, they are within a range of four words. To go to one of the cited passages, select it and click Go To Text. In addition, Perseus displays a variety of statistics. In Greek, inflected forms may be ambiguous, deriving from one lemma or another (e.g., the form could come from either or the Ionic word , "moon.") Accordingly, the numbers 22 and 16 following mean that forms of that word appear in Homer a maximum of twenty-two times (i.e., not counting ambiguities) and a minimum of sixteen times (i.e., eliminating ambiguous forms).

> Find a list of Greek words associated with the concept "revolt" and a list of words associated with the concept "persuade" within a proximity of 10 words in Thucydides.

From the first card of Greek Words in Proximity, go to the List Edit card by clicking the button Enter/Edit Dictionary Lists. If words from a previous search are in the fields, click Clear List 1 and Clear List 2.

You will now use the English-Greek Word Search feature to generate lists of words to search. (This tool is described in greater detail below.) Choose the item English-Greek Word Search from the Links menu. Type "revolt" into the Look Up field and click the button Look Up, upper left. Choose the item Greek Words in Proximity from the Related Tools pop-up menu. A dialog window will ask you which list you want the "revolt" words entered into (figure 8.29). Click List 1. (If you wish to cancel the request, click Neither.) A further dialog may appear asking whether to add or replace your selection to the list. In this case, click Replace.

Follow the same procedure for the English-Greek Word List for "persuade," and enter the list of "persuade" words into List 2.

The Greek words in the two lists are drawn from entries in the Lexicon containing the English words "revolt" and "persuade" in their definitions. There will not always be a close connection between words on the list and the meaning targeted. In some cases, you may want to edit your lists.

Your Edit Lists card should now look like the illustration in figure 8.29.

Figure 8.29 Greek Words in Proximity Edit Lists card.

Set the span of words to be searched to 10 in the box at the bottom, and click Done to return to the first Greek Words in Proximity card. Choose Thucydides from the pop-up menu Choose Another Author, and click Do Search. Ten citations will appear in the field below, which you can go to by selecting one and clicking Go To Text.
Statistics
Statistics for the search described above are shown in figure 8.30. For List 1, there were 10 entries associated with "revolt." The asterisk to the right of word 1, list 1 directs you to the Format of the statistics, shown below the List 1 Totals.

Figure 8.30 Greek Words in Proximity statistics.

Accordingly, is a lemma (dictionary entry) and not an oblique form. 30 is the maximum number of occurrences in Thucydides (including ambiguous forms), and 25 is the minimum number of occurrences in Thucydides (subtracting ambiguous forms).

For List 1 Totals, Max=119 means that for the 10 words associated with "revolt," the maximum number of forms found in Thucydides is 119 (disregarding ambiguous forms), and Min=84 means that for the same list, the minimum number of forms is 84 (subtracting ambiguous forms).

Further statistics are in the lower left. Words in Perseus means that for the author Thucydides there are 150,116 words in the database. For the matches in this search, the maximum number is 4 (disregarding ambiguous forms), and the minimum is 2 (subtracting ambiguous forms).

Options
When the search is completed, an Options pop-up menu appears lower left (figure 8.31). They are various ways to sort the search results.

Figure 8.31 Greek Words in Proximity Options.

Show closest matches first will display the citations starting with those whose words are closest in proximity. Show ambiguous matches first will display the citations starting with those containing ambiguous forms. Show definite matches first will display the citations starting with those which are not ambiguous. Sort by Appearence in Author will display the citations by line, book or section from first to last in the Author.

Please be aware that search results are limited to 30,000 characters by the HyperCard software. Thus a search for words ending in within a range of five words of those ending with (both over 600) will bring an error message.

Some of the most frequently occurring words in Greek have not been indexed. That means that the Greek Words in Proximity tool will not work with words such as and . For a list of these words, see Table 8.2 above.

8.4.10 ENGLISH-GREEK WORD SEARCH

The English-Greek Word List (figure 8.32) is designed to search the Greek lexicon for words whose definitions contain a selected word or string. (Strings are defined in section 8.4.1.) Since you can use this tool to find Greek terms for English concepts, it, in effect, converts the Greek-English Lexicon into a rough but very powerful English-Greek lexicon. The tool is based on the entries in the Liddell-Scott Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon.

Figure 8.32 English-Greek Word Search

Not every English word in each dictionary entry has been indexed. The English-Greek Word Search will find words only in the actual English definition--in practice, words that are italicized in the print dictionary.

If you choose the English-Greek Word Search via the Tools & References Index from the Gateway or via the Links menu, you must enter a search string when the tool appears. If you choose English-Greek Word Search via the Related Tools pop-up menu within another Philological Tool and have already selected a word, that word will automatically activate the English-Greek Word Search.

Look Up field
Use the field next to the Look Up button to enter the English word or string. If the English-Greek Word List is showing previous results, they will be cleared with the new search. Click Look Up to perform the search.

The string or word you type in must not include any spaces. The English-Greek Word List tool will only look up one-word strings.

Type of Search
Items in this pop-up menu define the string to be searched. This word

Figure 8.33 Type of Search.

only searches for precise words wherein the word and string are identical (e.g., "household"). Words with these starting characters searches for words that begin with a given string (e.g., "house-"). Words with these ending characters searches for words that end with a given string (e.g., "-hold"). Words with this substring searches for words that contain an embedded string (e.g., "-use-").

> Look up several kinds of strings with the Englisk-Greek Word Search tool.

Type "household" in the String to Find field (if you haven't already done this). Choose the item This word only from the Type of Search pop-up menu, then click Look Up. (It will work to press Return here also.) The result of the search is displayed in the text field on the lower left of the screen. The word "household" appears in the definitions of 19 Greek words, which appear in the left column. The search does not find text that is a direct translation of the selected word; instead, the search identifies Greek words that contain the selected English text in their definitions.

Now try searching the English-Greek Word List for the string "house" (do not include a hyphen) with the Type of Search set to Words with these starting characters. The starting characters house- begin 12 English words, which occur in 187 dictionary entries.

Try searches for the ending strings -hold and -use-.

Searches for extremely common English strings will take longer. On a Macintosh Performa 636CD running Perseus at 5 MB the search for -use- took 53 seconds.

Options
When the search is completed, an Options pop-up menu appears (figure 8.34).

Figure 8.34 Options pop-up menu.

Choose Resort List from the Options pop-up menu to put the list in Greek alphabetical order.

To condense the list, choose Resort List and Merge Duplicates.

These options will take a long time with lists containing many hundreds of words.

You can eliminate less interesting entries by editing the results. Since you can select dictionary entries and call up their English definitions from the Greek-English Lexicon, you can even use this tool with little or no knowledge of Greek.

Related Tools
The Related Tools pop-up menu provides links with several other Philological Tools (figure 8.35).

Figure 8.35

The English-Greek Word Search generates a list of Greek dictionary entries. From the Related Tools menu, you can access the definitions of individual Greek dictionary entries by selecting them and then calling up the Greek-English Lexicon, or you can find author-by-author citations with the Greek Word Search tool.

You can also work directly with the entire list of dictionary entries that you have generated. By going to either of the two Greek Word Frequency tools, you can see how often all of "household" words appear in different authors. You could thus begin to see whether this concept seems to be more or less common in different authors. (Words associated with "household" show up with twice the frequency in Aeschylus that they do in Sophocles, and 2 1/3 times as often in Euripides as they do in Sophocles.)

If you use the Related Tools to call up the Greek Words in Proximity Search, you can add the entire list of dictionary entries for "household" to one of the two lists (see the example in section 8.4.9 above). You could thus use the English-Greek Word Search to set up a search for dictionary entries that contain "household" in their definition within 5 words of dictionary entries that contain "guest" in their definition.

8.4.11 GREEK DICTIONARY ENTRY SEARCH

The Greek Word List (figure 8.36) searches the Entry headers of the Greek-English Lexicon for occurrences of a Greek character string as the starting or ending string of a word or anywhere within a word. (Strings are defined in section 8.4.1.) This tool is especially helpful in ascertaining the correct dictionary spelling and accentuation of a Greek form.

Figure 8.36 Greek Dictionary Entry Search.

String to Find and Position
Enter a string to use in the Look Up field, if a word is not currently showing. (The example in figure 8.32 shows a search for the string .)

Note: it is not necessary to enter accents and breathings in order to use this tool.

Click Look Up to produce the list of words.

The results appear in the field lower left. A dictionary entry may be selected and pasted into a field where a lemma is required (in Greek Word Search, for example). You may also link with one of the related Philological Tools.

The pop-up menu right of the Look Up field gives you three ways to specify where in a word the string occurs: Words with these starting characters, Words with theese ending characters, and Words with this substring.

Related Philological Tools
The Greek Dictionary Entry Search is linked with the other Philological Tools via the pop-up menu, upper right. If you select text from the list of dictionary Entries before choosing another tool, the new tool will apply itself to the selection. Thus you can copy over the dictionary form of a Greek word to the following tools: Greek Word Search, Greek English Lexicon, Greek Word Frequencies (Overview and By Author) and Greek Words in Proximity.

8.4.12 GREEK WORD FREQUENCIES

The Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview tool displays the frequencies with which a particular Greek word, or a list of words, is used among all the authors of Primary Texts. The Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author tool displays the frequencies with which a particular Greek word, or a list of words, is used in one Primary Text author. Both tools are accessed from the Links menu, from the Tools & Resources icon in the Gateway, and from the Related Tools pop-up menu on the other Philological Tools. If you have opened this tool from another philological tool, the current list of Greek words is placed in a scrolling field at the left. Each Greek Word Frequencies tool applies itself to the first word in the list, which appears in the field at the top.
Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview
The Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview tool is shown with a list of words associated with "horse" (figure 8.37).

Figure 8.37 Greek Word Frequencies with scrolling window.

The list of words was produced by the English-Greek Word Search tool; for this procedure see section 8.4.10 above. Use the scrolling window to move up or down the list (use of the scrolling window is described in section 4.1.3). Edit this list (or generate your own) by clicking on the button Edit List in the upper right corner of the word list field. A card Edit List of Dictionary Entries appears (figure 8.38).

Figure 8.38 Edit List of Dictionary Entries card.

From the Edit List card you may type in your own dictionary entries (with correct accents and breathings), or paste in others from elsewhere in Perseus. You can find the dictionary entry with the Greek Dictionary Search tool, see above 8.4.11. Sort the list alphabetically by clicking the Sort button; sort the list alphabetically and remove duplicates by clicking the button Sort and Remove Duplicates. When you are through editing your list, click Done.
Do Calculation
You can calculate frequencies for the whole list by choosing the item Calculate for All Entries in List from the pop-up menu Do Calculation. Calculate frequencies for a single word by choosing the item Calculate for Selected Entry.
View Data
The pop-up menu View Data (figure 8.39) offers three ways in which to organize your results. The option Sort Authors Alphabetically is the default.

Figure 8.39 View Data pop-up menu.

To group authors by literary type (Tragedy, Comedy, History, etc.), choose Sort Authors By Type of Literature. To see results chronologically by author, choose the item Sort Authors By Author Date.
Statistical Information
The information for each author includes the total words in all works of the author catalogued in Perseus and the statistical reports for any possible use of the word (Maximum) and all definite uses of the word (Minimum). Instances are the number of times the word is used throughout the author's work. Frequency is the number of instances a word is used per 10,000 words.
Related Philological Tools
The Greek Word Frequencies --Overview tool is linked with the other Philological Tools via the Related Tools pop-up menu, upper right. If you select text from the word list before choosing another tool, the new tool will apply itself to the selection. Select a word for which frequencies are displayed and choose Greek Word Search for citations in an author and Greek-English Lexicon for the definition. For Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author (described below), select a word or group of words to search them; if no selection is made, Perseus will copy the entire list to Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author.
Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author
The description Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author tool continues with the example of a list of words associated with "horse" (figure 8.40).

Figure 8.40 Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author.

You can copy a list of Greek words associated with an English word (in this case, "horse") from the English-Greek Word Search into Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author by choosing this item from the Related Tools pop-up menu. For details on this proceedure, see section 8.4.10 above. Edit this list (or generate your own) by clicking on the button Edit Full List to the right of the Calculate Frequencies pop-up menu. A card Edit List of Dictionary Entries appears (figure 8.41).

Figure 8.41 Enter List of Dictionary Entries card, Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author.

You can edit this list or type in a list of your own with correct accents and breathings. Sort alphabetically by clicking the button Sort. Remove duplicates by clicking the button Sort and Remove Duplicates. When you are through editing the list, click Done to return to the Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author card.

The current author is displayed in the upper left. Change authors by choosing an author from the list of authors under the pop-up menu Choose Another Author. The example will continue with words associated with "horse" in Demosthenes. (The orators as a group use a low frequency rate of "horse" words.)

Calculate Frequencies
There are three ways to calculate word frequencies in an author. To see a list of only those words associated with "horse" which Demosthenes uses, choose the item Use Dictionary Entries Found in this Author from the Calculate Frequencies pop-up menu (figure 8.42).

Figure 8.42 Ways to calculate word frequencies by author.

The results of the calculation are shown in figure 8.43. The choice Use Dictionary Entries in Full List will include words from the list of words associated with "horse" not used by Demosthenes. Choose Precalculate Frequencies for All Authors in order for Perseus to work out the calculations for all authors in the database for your list. (Results are displayed alphabetically backwards, because the data for Xenophon is the last operated on by the computer.) Go from author to author via the Choose Another Author pop-up menu, or use the Forward and Backward arrows on the Navigator Palette.

Figure 8.43 Frequency of words associated with "horse" in Demosthenes.

Options
Four ways of sorting your results appear under the Options pop-up menu (figure 8.44).

Figure 8.44 Options pop-up menu.

To display the results in order from the most commonly used words to the least, choose Sort Most Common to Least. To display the results in reverse order, choose Sort Least Common to Most. To display the results alphabetically, choose Sort Alphabetically. To bring back the original list, but remove the results of the search, choose Restore Original List.
Related Philological Tools
The Greek Word Frequencies -- By Author tool is linked with the other Philological Tools via the Related Tools pop-up menu, upper right. If you select text from the word list before choosing another tool, the new tool will apply itself to the selection. Select a word from the list and choose Greek Word Search for citations in an author and Greek English Lexicon for the definition. If you make no selection and choose Greek Word Frequencies -- Overview, Perseus will copy the full list to it.

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