Tough Call: Pliny .... or ... Lewis and Short
https://www.logos.com/product/33883/plinys-natural-history
https://www.logos.com/product/16014/lewis-and-shorts-latin-dictionary
It's clear the Logosian world is conflicted, being almost split evenly, as to WHICH one to bid on.
Pliny? Learn about papyri making and why parchment originated from a city known in Revelations. Also geography when the world used to be flat (with the sun runnning underneath each night to be ready for the morning).
Lewis and Short? Well, that'd be the origin of the word 'parchment' (along with the language that early Christian 'fathers' often wrote in .... what DID they 'mean' or does it matter).
Pliny, L&S. Pliny, L&S. They're so similar, how can one decide.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I have an order for both.
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Denise said:
It's clear the Logosian world is conflicted, being almost split evenly
The split is far from even. L&S will cost significantly more to produce than Pliny. Knowing that, the visual similarity in the graphs indicates a far greater buy-in on L&S.
Some statistics on L&S orders - if just half the people who actually have bids in, but below the current $24 changed their bids to $24, this would go over. If 2/3rds of the people who had bids at one point but cancelled were in at $24, this would go over.
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Thank you, Vincent! One word! Tantalising! Peace to all! *smile*
FYI - The "history" of Tantalising= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus
Sort of a Noet Topic, eh?
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Interesting article, Milford.
Of course, if some of the Pliny bidders moved their bid over to L&S (thereby saving $6), they could then afford both an apple and a drink of water too and not suffer the fate of Tantalus.
(I'm just bumping this, relative to Vincent's excellent point).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Well, it appears the Logosian world has spoken and quite loudly I might add.
Apparently a Logos staff member(s) stayed late last night to watch the bidding war. And at 1:41am (Bellingham time?), Logos announced Pliny won.
But the Lewis and Short team was laughing, since now the Pliny resource closes this Friday.
Pliny-ists are going to have to work hard to get a $25 price point.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I was reading through Proverbs 24 this morning as part of a Faithlife reading plan, and decided to run a "Cited By" search for Prov 24:13 . One of the references was from the Jewish Encyclopedia (JE), and the particular encyclopedia entry on Honey cited Scripture, the Talmud, Josephus, and... Pliny. Cool beans! Resources like the JE and Pliny seem to be the sort of thing that folks might enjoy leafing through during an afternoon in the library, and yet it's tough to imagine anyone going through the trouble of obtaining a printed set for their personal libraries. In Logos, both of the aforementioned resources become highly accessible and very useful for focused sorts of inquiry.
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Another not-irrelevant point is that L&S can be publicly consulted (legally and for free) on the Internet in various places.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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Denise said:
Pliny-ists are going to have to work hard to get a $25 price point.
It would appear to have been easier than you thought it would be, given the closing price of $24 [:)]
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Yes, you're right. Clearly the Pliny-ists take Pliny seriously. I, myself, always viewed Pliny as a technical footnote. Sort of a guy that sits in the background, and periodically delivers a footnote as needed.
I'm looking forward to him (20 vols!).
However I'm really hoping that Lewis and Short will nudge its way over the top (and thense require quite a bit of time to tag, etc).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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