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In Greek mythology, Perseus (US: / ˈ p ɜː r. s i. ə s /, UK: / ˈ p ɜː. sj uː s /; Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. [1]
Here the word is used to convey the generic meaning of "public affair" or "the commonwealth" (in contrast to the private or family life) without the Roman connotations of republicanism. This is illustrated in the following text (Latin text and English translation from the Perseus Project):
Perseus 1.0, or HyperCard Perseus, was a CD-ROM released in 1992 by Yale University, using the Apple HyperCard for McIntosh. [2] [3] [7] For practical reasons, it was limited to ancient Greek materials, and contained the texts of nine major Greek authors along with an English translation and commentary. [2]
At Perseus Project: Caesar's Civil War- De Bello Civili, English translation by William Duncan, ed.; also includes a Latin text edition; Latin only; also includes books 2 and 3. Summary; Wikisource: Commentaries on the Civil War, translated by William Alexander McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869); Supplement of Dionysius Vossius, Book 1, Book 2 ...
The first Latin translation is due to James of Venice (12th century), and has always been considered as the translatio vetus (ancient translation). [13] The second Latin translation (translatio nova, new translation) was made from the Arabic translation of the text around 1230, and it was accompanied by Averroes's commentary; the translator is ...
Latin texts of Cicero's works at University of Zurich's Corpus Corporum; List of online translations of Cicero's works; Works by Cicero at Project Gutenberg; Perseus Project (Latin and English): Classics Collection (see: M. Tullius Cicero) Works by Cicero at the Stoic Therapy eLibrary; Works of Cicero, The Latin Library
The work is usually referred to as Lewis and Short after the names of its editors, Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short.It was derived from the 1850 English translation by Ethan Allen Andrews of an earlier Latin–German dictionary, Wörterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache, by the German philologist Wilhelm Freund, in turn based on I. J. G. Scheller’s Latin–German dictionary of 1783.
The editio princeps of Diodorus was a Latin translation of the first five books by Poggio Bracciolini at Bologna in 1472. [28] The first printing of the Greek original (at Basel in 1535) contained only books 16–20, and was the work of Vincentius Opsopoeus.