{"id":1302,"date":"2016-08-08T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2016-08-08T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T17:17:36","slug":"core-words-not-in-the-aeneid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/2016\/08\/08\/core-words-not-in-the-aeneid\/","title":{"rendered":"Core words not in the Aeneid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vat.lat_.3225_0101_fr_0049r_lcropped\"Diverting Latin parlor game: take a\u00a0very common Latin word (in the DCC Latin Core Vocabulary<\/a>) that does not occur in Vergil’s Aeneid,<\/em>\u00a0and explain its absence.\u00a0Why would Vergil avoid certain\u00a0lemmata (dictionary head words) that are frequent in preserved Latin? Sometimes the reason is simply metrical (celeriter,\u00a0<\/em>imperator<\/em>); in other cases, perhaps a word sounded too prosaic (cibus<\/em>, servus<\/em>,\u00a0uxor, interim<\/em>) for high poetry; sometimes a word just isn’t appropriate for the “prehistoric” period of the epic (provincia,\u00a0praetor<\/em>). Sometimes it’s a little hard to figure. Why not sapiens<\/em>?\u00a0Why not maiores<\/em>?\u00a0Why relinquo<\/em> but not\u00a0reliquus<\/em>? Why\u00a0vagor<\/em> but not\u00a0vagus<\/em>?\u00a0<\/em>Check out the list below and let me know what jumps out at you. The Vergilian data comes from LASLA<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(no automatic lemmatizers were used, all human inspection), as analyzed by Seth Levin. To check\u00a0its accuracy, search\u00a0the DCC version of Frieze’s Vergilian Dictionary<\/a>, which includes definitions and citations, as well as (LASLA-based) frequency data for individual lemmata. At times there might be some lemmatization issues (for example\u00a0barbarus<\/em> came up in the initial list of excluded core words, since Vergil avoids the noun, though he uses the adjective\u00a0twice. I deleted it from this version). Ok, here’s the list. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

aegre
\narbitror
\nauctoritas
\nbeneficium
\nceleriter
\ncenseo
\nceterum
\ncibus
\ncogito
\ncomparo
\nconsuetudo
\ndamnum
\ndesidero
\ndignitas
\ndisciplina
\ndormio
\neo (adv)
\nepistula
\nexistimo
\nfabula
\nfacinus
\nfamilia
\nfructus
\nimperator
\ninitium
\nintellego
\ninterficio
\ninterim
\ninterrogo
\nitaque
\niudico
\nlibido
\nlittera
\nmagnitudo
\nmaiores
\nmateria
\nmemoria
\nmultitudo
\nmundus (adj)
\nnecessitas
\nnegotium
\nnolo
\noportet
\noratio
\npaene
\npecunia
\npertineo
\nplerumque
\nplerusque
\npoeta
\npostea
\npraetor
\nprivatus
\nprovincia
\npublicus
\nquasi
\nquemadmodum
\nquidam
\nreliquus
\nreverto
\nsapiens
\nsapientia
\nscientia
\nscribo
\nservus
\nsolum (adv)
\nstatim
\nstudeo
\ntamquam
\ntribunus
\nvagus
\nvitium
\nutilis
\nutrum
\nuxor<\/p>\n

Image: detail of an illustration of Vergil’s Underworld, from \u00a0Fulvii Ursini schedae Bibliothecae Vaticanae (Vaticanus Latinus 3225), also known as the Vergilius Vaticanus<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0“Vatican Vergil” (49r<\/a>),\u00a0magnificent illustrated codex written in Italy in rustic capitals at the end of the fourth or the beginning of the fifth century AD. Source: Digital Vatican Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diverting Latin parlor game: take a\u00a0very common Latin word (in the DCC Latin Core Vocabulary) that does not occur in Vergil’s Aeneid,\u00a0and explain its absence.\u00a0Why would Vergil avoid certain\u00a0lemmata (dictionary head words) that are frequent in preserved Latin? Sometimes the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5514,61768,61770,5513],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aeneid","tag-core-vocabulary","tag-lasla","tag-vergil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}