Encoding (inter)textual insertions in Latin "grammatical commentary"

• Main Authors: Bruno Bureau, Christian Nicolas, Ariane Pinche
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nicolas Turenne 2017-12-01
• Series: Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities
• Subjects: quotation; ancient commentary; allusion; fragmentary texts; mentioned words; latin grammar; xml tei; [shs.class] humanities and social sciences/classical studies
• Online Access: https://jdmdh.episciences.org/4117/pdf
• ISSN: 2416-5999

The ancient commentaries provide a large sample of quotations from classical or biblical texts for which Latin gramamrians developed a complex system of insertion of quoted texts. The paper examines how to encode these places using XML Tei, and focuses on difficult cases, such as inaccurate quotations, or quotations of partly or wholly lost texts.