Why does the English parallel translation show up for some Greek texts, while others don't?

Ik heb twee collecties:

Greek: All Ancient Greek Literature (except Bibles)
Greek: All Ancient Greek Literature in Translation (except Bibles)

This allows me to search for words in Ancient Greek Literature, while Logos also displays the English Translation if I click 'Add Versions' and select the second collection.

Fabulous feature, that works great with most resources (if you have both the Greek and the English of the same text).

However, in the screenshot:

you see it works for Xenophon, Anabasis: both Greek and English is displayed
but it doesn't work for Cassius Dio, Historiae Romanae:

I can't find what goes wrong, here:

The Greek text displayed in the search window, is taken from resource 1 in the library (upper right)
I do have the English translation as you see, both in the library (upper right) and in the texts below

Nevertheless, the English translation of Cassius Dio, Hist. Rom. 44.33.3 doesn't show up in the search window. The only thing that might affect the issue at hand, is that the English translation doesn't have a milestone more specific than Hist. Rom. 44.33 (instead of 44.33.3). Would that be the reason? And if, so, is this something that can be solved?

Any ideas how to resolve this?

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JT (alabama24)

I know nothing of these resources, but at my first attempt to understand your issue, it sounds similar to reverse interlinears. Not all Bibles, for example, have the underlying original language material tied to each word. When two Bibles do and you click on a word in one translation, you can have the other translation highlight the same word. If one of those translations doesn’t have that feature, it won’t work.

It sounds like you are trying this on a resource where the one is not tied to the other.

Michel Pauw

Thanks, JT, for trying to understand the issue!

I am talking about the LOEB texts. These are ancient texts in both Greek and English. Some English texts do show up as English translation of the parallel Greek text, others don't.

I think it's not the 'original language material' that need to be tied to each word, but the milestones of both resources need to be the same.

Unfortunately the milestones in the Greek text go one level deeper than in the English translation. I'm afraid that might cause the issue.

Michel Pauw

Here is another example, actually from the same study:

I own both the Greek and the English volume of the LOEB edition of Plutarch's Lives vols II and VIII.
both vols are included in respectively 1) a Greek Literature Collection and 2) a collection of the same Literature but in English translation
I search for words in the Greek collection and both Greek vols show up.
I add the English Collection as an added version.
only vol. II shows up in English, vol. VIII is not showing up as a translation of the Greek text

The milestones are identical in both volumes.

So, why is vol. VIII not showing up in English?

Andrew Batishko

any resource of type Ancient Manuscript Translation is not considered a candidate to be shown in the list.

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/203251/1182140.aspx#1182140

Mark Barnes (Logos)

This has been fixed in Logos 9.15.