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I've just downloaded the Perseus Library. Is there a way to search a Greek lemma across all books contained in this library?
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Hey Zacharias,
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Zacharias Shoukry said:I've just downloaded the Perseus Library. Is there a way to search a Greek lemma across all books contained in this library?
Yes, if you restrict the search to an ad-hoc collection of Perseus works.
Lemma search is done via morph-search:
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There is also the option to switch to the Perseus website search
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thanks!
If I search for example for the verb "ζῳοποιέω", there are no results even though I know there has to be a result. Is Logos only searching in already downloaded material? And if so, how can I say to Logos that it should download all Perseus Documents (obviously it hasn't)?0 -
this is a good button, but it only leads to the Greek Word Study Tool of the website (with LSJ and other Dictionaries) and not to a leamm search, right?
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Zacharias Shoukry said:
Is Logos only searching in already downloaded material?
It should search cloud-based resources as well - and return results in a separate section of the Search panel
Zacharias Shoukry said:And if so, how can I say to Logos that it should download all Perseus Documents (obviously it hasn't)?
You can select them all in the Library and download them from there - see https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025106492-Select-Which-Library-Resources-to-Download for details.
Zacharias Shoukry said:If I search for example for the verb "ζῳοποιέω", there are no results even though I know there has to be a result
I only find one result in Perseus for that word.
Have you tried a more common word such as λόγος as suggested by Mick. If so, what results do you get from that?
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Zacharias Shoukry said:
If I search for example for the verb "ζῳοποιέω", there are no results even though I know there has to be a result.
I have no hit for this lemma - where is the potential result (there could be a mis-tagged or not tagged resource)
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Ah, thanks Graham. I had picked the wrong lemma of the two, with the first omega having a iota subscript (like the one given). Now I see the same.
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Zacharias Shoukry said:
Is there a way to search a Greek lemma across all books contained in this library?
If you're lazy like me, and Logos isn't your primary Bible software, I find the section "Textual Searches" in Bible Word Studies to be really good. You didn't ask, but for info, it includes (greek) searches (and occurance counts) for:
- LXX
- New Testament (of course)
- Apostolic Fathers
- NT Apocrypha (true!)
- Pseudepigrapha
- Josephus
- Philo
- Greek Classics (Perseus)
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The result should be Lucian, Verae Historiae 1,22. And once it worked, but I cannot reproduce it. So I wonder if there is anything wrong with it. I find a lot of results with common words but I have to verify if it functions properly and that is easier to show with rarely used words
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Zacharias Shoukry said:
The result should be Lucian, Verae Historiae 1,22. And once it worked, but I cannot reproduce it. So I wonder if there is anything wrong with
Looking it up, it seems that some words in this resource are not fully tagged (right-click on ζῳοποιοῦσιν in this sentence will show no lemma and no morph information) - noting that Perseus-tagging was done by some algorithm rather than by hand.
With no lemma-tagging, the search can't find this result.
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