I'm making a database!
Feb. 19th, 2003 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetI'm making a database (in Appleworks, because I have it and know how to use it) of significant vocabulary pertaining to women in the works of Tacitus! Woo hoo!
A sample entry looks something like this:
Agr. 4.23 character Iulia Procilla
word castitas
topic virtue, chastity
context Agricola's virtuous mother Iulia Procilla educated him properly and restrained him from a too fervent study of philosophy.
text mater Iulia Procilla fuit, rarae castitatis. in huius sinu indulgentiaque educatus per omnem honestarum artium cultum pueritiam adulescentiamque transegit. [...] memoria teneo solitum ipsum narrare se prima in iuventa studium philosophiae acrius, ultra quam concessum Romano ac senatori, hausisse, ni prudentia matris incensum ac flagrantem animum coercuisset.
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Neat, huh?
Well, no, I suppose it really isn't. But it's a useful thing I can do which will actually advance human knowledge. Or at least my knowledge, and I'm human, so go me.
(Fortunately, I can just cut-and-paste the Latin text.)
Hmm. Well. That's really my exciting news of the day. That and J. and I have, over the past two days, done 5 hours of snow-shoveling, the curse of being responsible for a house with a whole corner's worth of sidewalks, a driveway, and three porches (one not accessible from the sidewalks, but that's okay because I just shoveled a path from the driveway at the side of the house around to the back). I did only about 2 of those hours, but damn. I'm wiped out and even a little lightheaded, which is annoying.
And it's my sister's birthday. She's 31 now. As I'm the older sibling, that makes me feel, well, older.
A sample entry looks something like this:
Agr. 4.23 character Iulia Procilla
word castitas
topic virtue, chastity
context Agricola's virtuous mother Iulia Procilla educated him properly and restrained him from a too fervent study of philosophy.
text mater Iulia Procilla fuit, rarae castitatis. in huius sinu indulgentiaque educatus per omnem honestarum artium cultum pueritiam adulescentiamque transegit. [...] memoria teneo solitum ipsum narrare se prima in iuventa studium philosophiae acrius, ultra quam concessum Romano ac senatori, hausisse, ni prudentia matris incensum ac flagrantem animum coercuisset.
----
Neat, huh?
Well, no, I suppose it really isn't. But it's a useful thing I can do which will actually advance human knowledge. Or at least my knowledge, and I'm human, so go me.
(Fortunately, I can just cut-and-paste the Latin text.)
Hmm. Well. That's really my exciting news of the day. That and J. and I have, over the past two days, done 5 hours of snow-shoveling, the curse of being responsible for a house with a whole corner's worth of sidewalks, a driveway, and three porches (one not accessible from the sidewalks, but that's okay because I just shoveled a path from the driveway at the side of the house around to the back). I did only about 2 of those hours, but damn. I'm wiped out and even a little lightheaded, which is annoying.
And it's my sister's birthday. She's 31 now. As I'm the older sibling, that makes me feel, well, older.
