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Philologic Information and Help

Welcome to Philologic. Here are some tips to make your visit more productive:

• We now have more so-called Tooltips on the search form. Hover over a box with your mouse, wait a moment, and you may get helpful information. In Firefox, you can install an 'add-on' called Long Titles to make the full text of these tips display.
• Show Options: Clicking on the "Show Options" buttons gives you a listing of all the possibilities for the search field in this database. Please be patient; some of these take a few moments to generate. 'Show Options' does not execute a search; it merely lists a number of possibilities for you to enter in the adjoining search field.
• For bibliographic fields, the Show Options function is dynamic: if you have already selected Plautus as your Author and proceed to click on Show Options next to the Title field, you will see titles by Plautus only.
• 'Text object' is an umbrella term for both structural parts of texts (chapters, sections, notes) as well as less conventional units, such as character text. These fields allow you to limit your search to textual notes, or to a particular character in comedy.
• For pattern matching one may employ wildcard characters (e.g., widow* retrieves widow, widowe, widowhood, etc.). Wild cards are not necessary outside the main search field. In the author field, 'Xen', 'Xen*', 'noph', etc. all find Xenophon. For fuller explanations, please consult the Philologic manual.
• We have implemented a morphology look-up tool. Select a word (for instance, by double-clicking it) and hit 'd' on your keyboard. If this does not result in anything, there are two possible causes: You may have blocked pop-up windows, or you are actually typing a Greek delta! Change your keyboard to regular input and the morphological analysis should show up. Make sure to select the word (including any apostrophe) only, and no surrounding punctuation.
• In case you are looking for the morphological analysis of a word that does not appear on the page, you will need to use the Morphological Analysis box instead. This is also a solution for iPhone users who cannot select and enter text outside of web forms.
• In the bibliographic search fields, try to enter as little information as possible. 'Xen' suffices to get you to Xenophon.
• Philologists: Check out the refined search results. Here you can tweak the KWIC settings, for instance.
• Narratologists: Check out the Text Object Search fields. Here you can enter a character's name and search only in that character's speech (fully implemented in Greek texts of tragedy and comedy).
• Text Objects are also handy if you are looking for Demosthenes on the Crown and don't remember the number of the speech. Simply enter 'crown' or 'Στεφ' --NB: Greek is accent and case-sensitive here.
• On the results pages, we have included a link to report problems and errors. If you find anything from a misplaced accent to a missing chunk of text, or if you have suggestions for improvement, please let us know.
• Terms: Clicking on the "Terms" buttons gives you a listing of all the possibilities for the search field in this database. Please be patient; some of these take a few moments to generate.
• No results when you fully expected them? You may need to hit the 'Clear' button to make sure you do not have hidden criteria from a previous search. Also, make sure that your typed input matches the radio button for full diacritics (and all English input); no diacritics; or transliteration.
• Transliteration: Here's the Greek alphabet in transliteration: a b g d e z h q i k l m n c o p r s t u f x y w.
• Similarity searching: Remember, you know more Greek than a computer does. Your mileage may vary, but you will probably find this option most useful for searching the English translations.

Perseus under Philo:
We are grateful to the Perseus Project for making their texts available for this project, and specifically to Greg Crane and Adrian Packel for their help in initial troubleshooting. Please note that the conditions of use of Perseus materials fully apply to the texts on this site as well. For details, view the Header information in each of the texts.

Refined Search Results
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Frequency by Author Frequency by Author per 10,000 [Check to hide titles]
Collocation Table Spanning 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 words. Turn Filter Off: Filtered Words
Word in Clause Position (Theme-Rheme) Display Options: Front of Clause Only Front and Last Only Front, Last, Middle Full Report
Line by Line (KWIC) Sorted by keyword and word to its Right Left Display up to 500 1000 2000 5000 10000 occurrences.
Sort by bibiliographic information, order by: Author, Title Author, Year of Publication Title, Author Year of Publication, Author

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Bibiliographic Search Fields

Find documents or limit word searches (use AND, OR, and NOT).

Editor:

(e.g. 'Steven J. Willett')

Pubdate:

(e.g. '1899')

Language:

(e.g. 'Greek')

Shrtcite:

(e.g. 'HesiodShieldGr')

Filename:

(e.g. '1999.02.0042.xml')

Genre:

(e.g. 'comedy')

One may also use the bibliographic fields on their own to find documents and sort the results.
Sort bibliographic searches only by: Author, Title Author, Year of Publication Title, Author Year of Publication, Author

Text Object Search Fields

Find documents or limit word searches (use OR only).

Div Objects
Head:

(e.g. 'To Nicocles')

Type:

(e.g. 'choral' or 'NOT notes')

SubDiv Objects:

Use Who: to find text spoken by characters you specify.
Who:

(e.g. 'Μήδεια')

N:

(e.g. 'Atossa')

Tag:

(e.g. 'note')

Type:

(e.g. 'iamb')