You are right, it is a fantastic interface the bigger the screen is – this summer a bunch of us actually transcribed as a group projecting the interface on a wall. It was fun.

(cont'd) and work continues on the unpublished Aristophanes-lexicon manuscript of Ernst Wüst from microfiches. But the ocr (we use Transkribus) and correction and tagging are the challenge. Having Bonitz digital would be especially good—Anything you can do would be most welcome.

(cont'd) through links with digital texts and including every occurrence of every word. Perseus Tufts and especially Chicago have helped the Lexeis project make some preliminary versions, I hope this summer Ast will be corrected and all Greek quotes added(so that it can be linked to Logeion)(cont'd)

Great idea and happy to hear you are interested. The best 19th century classical author-lexica (Ast for Plato, Bonitz for Aristotle, in Latin Merguet for Cicero) were ahead of their time, and redoing them in digital format can make them much more usable and authoritative (cont'd)

Just last week I told the Lexeis students that italics were illegal on the web (I thought I read that somewhere), clearly not so. Too bad they are not used in our version of Ast (who uses them often, but Transkribus does not recognize them), a big regret but can't be fixed at the moment.

Robert, L. 1936: ‘Archaiologos’, REG 49: 235-54. It means "someone who talks in silly proverbs" (Like Polonius in Hamlet), good illustration of the pejorative meaning of αρχαιος "old-fashioned" in Thucydides. (αρχαιολογεω of Nicias in Sicily)

I very much envy you managing to get italics on a webpage, you must tell me sometime how you do that.

Have you seen the article by Louis Robert on the glossary entry ἀρχαιολόγος = stupidus (a mime role)?

Esse quam videri is the motto of a state (I forget, which), requires a lot of explanation, even for those who know Latin somewhat.

I wrote partly about this in Lee and Morley, Handbook to the reception of Th., and suggested it was not unfinished, but found incomplete at his death when in fact he had written more—like Christoph Wolff showed for Bach’s Art of the Fugue.  Everyone I know dislikes this idea.

I have used the online service “youcanbookme.com“, it is free, a little complicated to set up, but worked well as long as I maintained it. But you may need Google Calendar to use it…

I had to learn this when the Lexeis project needed to match the database of Aristophanes lemmas with line numbers--sounded straightforward, took more than a month.

I know for Aristophanes it is Brunck, I think for Euripides it is Musgrave. You have to go back to the standard to find exactly where the line-divisions were. (These days it is easier to find with Hathi trust and Archive,org, but still a pain.)

For Greek lyric (all three tragedians and Aristophanes, Pindar too I think) since the colometry changes the line-breaks but the line nos should stay the same, one old edition is designated as the standard.

You need a lexicon to Aristophanes! Ethan Della Rocca and I are digitizing an unpublished one by Ernst Wüst (see the manuscript page in the photo) usingTranskribus, maybe by next year it will be on the web for you to look up the form.