Table 1
Latin literature, although often used as a single corpus in computational research, in fact has a wide generic range and multi-millennial time span (See Conte 1994).
| TIME PERIOD | REPUBLICAN LATIN | AUGUSTAN LATIN | IMPERIAL LATIN | LATE ANTIQUE & CHRISTIAN LATIN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‘Classical Latin’ | ||||
| Approximate Start | 2nd C. BCE | mid-1st C. BCE | 1st C. CE | 2nd C. CE |
| Approximate End | mid-1st C. BCE | early 1st C. CE | 3rd C. CE | |
| Example Authors & Works by Genre | ||||
| Epic poetry | Lucretius | Vergil Ovid | Statius Lucan | Dracontius |
| Theater | Plautus Terence | Pantomime | Seneca | Hrotsvitha |
| Small-format poetry (e.g., elegy) | Catullus | Horace Propertius Tibullus Ovid | Statius Martial | Anthologia Latina |
| Historiography & Military History | Caesar Sallust | Livy | Tacitus | Ammianus Marcellinus |
| Other prose | Cicero Varro Atticus | Flaccus Vitruvius Pompey Trogue | Petronius Pliny Quintilian Suetonius Apuleius | Nonius Jerome Tertullian Other apologists Acta Martyrum and Passiones |
Table 2
Summary of words included in existing Latin stop lists. “Y” indicates inclusion on a list; “N” indicates absence. CLTK-M: stop words by mean frequency; CLTK-V: stop words by variance; CLTK-E: stop words by entropy probability; CLTK-B: stop words by Borda count; ISO: stop words from the International Standardization Organization; PDL: stop words from the Perseus Digital Library. More details available in the file previous_stop_lists.py.
| WORDS | CLTK-M | CLTK-V | CLTK-E | CLTK-B | ISO | PDL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adhic, aliqui, aliquis, an, cur, deinde, es, etsi, fio, haud, idem, infra, interim, is, mox, necque, o, ob, possum, quare, quicumque, quilibet, quisnam, quisquam, quisque, quisquis, quoniam, sive, sui, sum, suus, trans, tum, unus | N | N | N | N | N | Y |
| a, e, erant, re, rebus, rem, tandem, vel | N | N | N | N | Y | N |
| at | N | N | N | N | Y | Y |
| contra, cuius, tantum | N | N | Y | N | N | N |
| magis | N | N | Y | N | N | Y |
| anno, deo, dicitur, dixit, dominus, ed, nummus, rex, totus | N | Y | N | N | N | N |
| super | N | Y | N | N | N | Y |
| bellum, bibit, dig, nouus, od, quaestio, uos | N | Y | N | Y | N | N |
| eorum | Y | N | N | N | N | N |
| cui, omnibus, sua | Y | N | Y | N | N | N |
| apud, igitur | Y | N | Y | N | N | Y |
| res | Y | N | Y | N | Y | N |
| ei, nobis, omnes, potest, quos, sine | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N |
| modo, quis, tam, ubi | Y | N | Y | Y | N | Y |
| dei, deus, secundum | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N |
| ea, eius, eo, esse, esset, eum, fuit, his, id, illa, mihi, nihil, nunc, omnia, quem, quid, quoque, se, sibi, sicut, sit, tibi | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| ante, ego, enim, ergo, iam, ille, inter, ipse, nam, ne, nisi, nos, post, pro, quia, sub, tu, uel, uero | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| erat, haec, hoc, me, qua, quibus, quod, sunt, te | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| ab, ac, ad, atque, aut, autem, cum, de, dum, est, et, etiam, ex, hic, in, ita, nec, neque, non, per, quae, quam, qui, quidem, quo, sed, si, sic, tamen, ut | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Table 3
Stop list targeted to Classical Latin poetry.
| CLASSICAL LATIN POETRY STOP LIST | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | contra | ex | ita | noster | qua | quod | super |
| ab | cum | facio | magis | nunc | quam | quoque | tam |
| abs | de | fero | magnus | nullus | que | res | tamen |
| ac | deus | habeo | meus | ob | qui | se | tantus |
| ad | dico | hic | modo | omnis | quia | sed | totus |
| aliquis | do | iam | multus | per | quicumque | si | tu |
| alius | dum | idem | nam | post | quid | sic | tuus |
| ante | e | igitur | ne | possum | quidam | sicut | vel |
| apud | ego | ille | nec | praeter | quidem | sine | vero |
| at | enim | in | neque | pro | quis | sub | vester |
| atque | ergo | inter | nihil | prope | quisquam | sui | vos |
| aut | et | intra | nisi | propter | quisque | sum | ubi |
| autem | etiam | ipse | nos | qualis | quisquis | supra | ultra |
| circa | etiamnum | is | non | quantus | quo | suus | ut |
| uti | |||||||
| FILE NAME | FORMATS | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| classical_latin_poetry_ stop_words_unlemmatized | .txt,* .csv | Unlemmatized stop list for classical Latin poetry |
| classical_latin_poetry_ stop_words_lemmatized | .txt,* .csv | Lemmatized stop list for classical Latin poetry |
| latin_stop_list | .py | Python script for importing stop lists |