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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Ever just need a really long list of Latin words, like for a puzzle or spellcheck etc.—here’s verba.txt, something like the Unix word list for Latin, ~134K words from online collections with filters for min count inter alia… github.com/diyclassics/...

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GitHub - diyclassics/verba: verba.txt - A Latin word list in the style of Unix /usr/share/dict/words

verba.txt - A Latin word list in the style of Unix /usr/share/dict/words - diyclassics/verba

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Forthcoming Loebs (Fall 2025) | Loeb Classical Library www.loebclassics.com/loeb/newsite... @harvardpress.bsky.social Hippocrates, Plato, Caesar, Augustine

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Just found out about this: SEDES, a program that automatically identifies, quantifies, and visualizes the metrical position of lemmata in ancient Greek hexameter poetry Brilliant job @sasansom.bsky.social ! sasansom.github.io/sedes/

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These visualizations are sample outputs of SEDES, a system for analyzing metrical position in Greek hexameter.

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Thom Yorke @thomyorke.wastehq.social · 30/05/2025

For those who need to know.. let me fill in the blanks

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/03/2025

I miss the laundry scent they call ‘unscented’. Like a depression, it makes it hard to write. What is is less, less there, half uninvented, And I, not quite. ‘Anosmia’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Anosmia’

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

“the more established the field becomes, the less can the production of the work of art, of its value but also of its meaning, be reduced to the sole labor of an artist—who, paradoxically, increasingly becomes the focus of attention" — Bourdieu

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A. C. "Al" Duncan @adclassics.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Although you can't tell from the way I am serving "serious author face" in the photo, I was honored and deeply humbled to have my first book, Ugly Productions: An Aesthetics of Greek Drama, profiled in this week's edition of UNC Research Stories.

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Unmasking Ugliness - UNC Research Stories

Al Duncan has spent the last 15 years exploring why humans are drawn to the unpleasant and uncomfortable aspects of life.

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