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The Perseus Digital Library, formerly known as the Perseus Project, is a free-access digital library founded by Gregory Crane in 1987 and hosted by the Department of Classical Studies of Tufts University. One of the pioneers of digital libraries, its self-proclaimed mission is to make the full record of humanity available to everyone.
Logeion is an open-access database of Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries. [1] Developed by Josh Goldenberg and Matt Shanahan in 2011, it is hosted by the University of Chicago . Apart from simultaneous search capabilities across different dictionaries and reference works, Logeion offers access to frequency and collocation data from the ...
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.
Available online at the Perseus Digital Library. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (2013) [1888/1889]. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon. Mansfield Centre, Connecticut: Martino Fine Books. ISBN 978-1-61427-397-4. Available online at the Perseus Digital Library. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume I ...
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]
Latin Translation Notes cacatum non est pictum: That's shat, not painted. From Gottfried August Bürger's Prinzessin Europa (line 60); popularised by Heinrich Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen ; also the title of Joseph Haydn's canon for four voices, Hob. XXVIIb:16; Ludwig van Beethoven set the text by Bürger as a three-voice canon, WoO 224.
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):
Online version at Harvard University Press. The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary, edited by James Morwood, Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-864227-X. Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.