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PHI Word Search Assignment

You are expected to hand in the answers to three questions related to this assignment.

First, go to the PHI website:

http://latin.packhum.org/ Links to an external site.

Accessing Latin Texts

Once you've agreed and entered the site, you'll get a list of authors.

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Try clicking on Marcus Tullius Cicero, and you'll see a list of his works.

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Click on De Domo Sua and you'll see the entire text of the oration.

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Word Searches

Now let's try the simplest sort of word search, one that searches for a word in all of the literature in the PHI database.

To begin, click on "Word Search":

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Start by searching for the string "felem," the accusative singular of the word for "cat."

Question 1:  How many times does "felem" appear in the entire database?  In what work?

Next, a more complex search; click on the little gear next to the search box and you will get a screen of instructions on more complex searches:

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Note that each author's name is followed by a number and an abbreviation, and each work is followed by a number and an abbreviation; you can use either the number or the abbreviation when you are setting up your search, so long as you follow the format given in the screen of instructions above.

So, if you put

[cic:Quinct] iudic

or

[474:001] iudic

in the "Search" box, you'd be searching Cicero's Pro Quinctio for the string iudic, which would give you all the forms of iudex except the nominative, plus all the forms of iudicium as well as of the verb iudico, iudicare.  If you wanted to get the nominative as well, you could search for 

[474:001] iudic&iudex

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Question 2:

How many times do forms of the adjective "muliebris" appear in all of CIcero? (Remember that you have to decide what string of letters to search for so that you will get all the forms.)

Question 3:

How many times do forms of the word "libido" appear in the Pro Caelio? (Look up the abbreviation or number for the Pro Caelio in the Canon, which you can get to from the screen that appears when you click the gear next to the search box.)