The Tristia are a collection of 50 elegies in 5 books written by Ovid between 9-13 CE, during his exile in the town of Tomis (modern-day Constantia in Romania). This collection is mainly dadicated to the poet's excruciating lament over his unfortunate condition and the incessant appeal to his friends and wife for salvation.
The Epistulae ex Ponto are a collection of 46 letters in elegiac couplets divided into 4 books. Started in 12 CE and written until the poet's death in 17 CE, these verse-epistles carefully depict the landscape and culture of the Dobruja and record the poet's extreme attempt to find new powerful patrons willing to recall him back to Rome.
For both works, the digital text is taken from The Latin Library. The original text was lemmatized and PoS tagged with the LiLa Text Linker. Moreover, the tool performed the linking of the text to the Lemma Bank of the LiLa Knowledge Base. The output of the Text Linker was checked and corrected manually at the CIRCSE Research Centre of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
The following forms, which were wrong in source data, were fixed following Wheeler's edition (Wheeler, A. L. (1959). Tristia-Ex Ponto. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press):
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conies (TheLatinLibrary = Tr. 2.15) pro comes
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virunique (Tr. 2.372) pro virumque
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conlis (Tr. 2.512) pro comis
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Neptunine (Tr. 3.11.62) pro Neptuni
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nee (Tr. 5.1.67) pro nec
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aum (Tr. 5.5.29) pro aura
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uria (Tr. 5.7.4) pro una
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utor (Tr. 5.13.5) pro uror
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ilia (Tr. 5.14.30) pro illa
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lactis (Tr. 5.14.32) pro laetis
The following lines, which were omitted by mistake in the original source, were added following Wheeler's edition (cit.):
tollere, conantes dura coercet hiems, (Tr. 3.10.44)
siue redundatas flumine cogit aquas, (Tr. 3.10.52)
cum fugerem merito naufragus omne fretum,>> (Tr. 5.12.50)
The standardization of capitalization usage and the adoption of the "u" character even for the voiced labiodental fricative [v] were applied to both texts, following the convention adopted in the LiLa Lemma Bank.
- Contributors: Aurora Alagni, Francesco Mambrini, Giovanni Moretti, Marco Passarotti
The LiLa: Linking Latin project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme – Grant Agreement No. 769994.
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