As I look out at the grey November New England afternoon, I consider -- as I often do this time of year -- that I can appreciate, at least a bit, the opening of Moby Dick.

I am thinking about Greek and Latin in colonial America and was struck to see this unsourced quotation from Greek (not just Latin) in Mather's Magnalia cites the Greek of Iliad 11.514. Surprised to see non-New Test Greek assumed so early, tbh

Rosy fingered now as in Homeric Greek

I am pleased to be able to share that NEH has funded a proposal to work on an edition of Aristotle's Poetics in Greek, Arabic and Latin.

Alyce and I sitting in the Anthony bourdain seat at Kubel’s in Barnegat Light

In the Harvard/Google million book collection, 10 most common authors with books listed as being 'grc' or 'lat':

Note #3 ...

Results from David Smith's first scan for quotations of Greek and Latin texts in the Harvard/Google million book collection.
* New Test -- rules by a wide margin
* Ovid and Lucretius outdo Virgil (!)
* Xenophon edges out the top Cicero
Just a first and preliminary look!

Pharr's Vergil goes into the public domain (if I calculate correctly) on Jan 1, 2026. You can find it already at archive.org/details/verg...

We are planning to digitize this. How much work should we put into correcting the glosses vs. using general short definitions?

Can anyone describe best practices for TEI encoding of textual notes with positional data? (e.g., β α above ἡμῖν εὑρεῖν; που above του)? Image from Campbell's Antigone edition

Tufts Classics is moving into a renovated Eaton Hall and there are issues. One (not the biggest) is the room below: it looks like a 2019 dedicated videoconference room with just one monitor at the end of a table. I couldn't teach in this and I would never use this old approach. Can others defend it?

Thanks to @jtauber.com, Annette von Stockhausen and pta.bbaw.de/en/ we have not only 7 million more words of Greek in the Perseus backend but als 1+ million words of Syriac. We need to move this data to a public facing server but I am just too happy not to share this.

A lot has happened in DH at Tufts and the DH MA has become very exciting.

@jtauber.com is working on the word study tool for Perseus 6. My first though was we have to remove the second accent (a route that James has written already).
My second thought: there is a clear tendency to have that second accent in the nominative -- adikos tis, adikoi tines.