Boo Ks

The Complete idiot's Guide to Learning Latin

This is actually quite good.

De Bello Gallico I

Ex Libris Whitefoot

Edited by Colin Ewan, Bristol Classical Press, 1957. This is a very good book. The vocabulary section has almost all the words used in the text.

De Bello Gallico at Intra Text

The Intra Text library has a marvellous collection of texts on line at http://www.intratext.com/. De Bello Gallico is at http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0044/$1.htm

These texts all have complete concordances so that you can see every usage of every word. Unfortunately the concordance treats each form of a Latin word as a distinct word.

Lynn Nelson

Lynn Nelson's word list is available on all sorts of web pages.

Kevin Cawley

Notre Dame University

Web Site: http://www.nd.edu/_archives/latgramm.htm

EUP Latin English Dictionary

Ex Libris Whitefoot

Teach Yourself, EUP Latin-English Dictionary and Concise Latin Grammar.

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Latin Dictionary G

/ LatinDictionary

G

H

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G

galea : helmet.

Gandavum : Ghent.

gaudet : he/she/it is happy

gaudium : joy, delight, happiness.

Gemblacensis : Gembloux.

gemo : to sigh, groan, wail.

gens : clan, race, nation, people, tribe.

genus : kind, sort, class, category.

gero : to carry, bear, wear/bear, give birth to/to carry about.

gerunt : carry on ??? (e.g. a war)

gesto : to carry, bear about.

gestum (gero) : carrying about, conduct (oneself).

gestum (gero) : carriage, bearing/having borne.

gigno (genuit) : to bring forth, bear, beget, father.

glacialis : icy, frozen, full of ice.

gladiator, gladiatoris (3dm)

gladiator (CIGL)

gladius : sword.

gloria : fame, renown, glory. (CIGL)

glorior : to glory, boast, pride oneself.

Graecus, Graeci (2dm)

a Greek (CIGL)

grando, onis : hailstorm.

grassor : go about, go ahead, proceed, attack.

gratia agere : (+ dat.) to thank.

gratia : gratitude, favor.

gratia : in order to, for the sake of, to.

gratia : (in the abl.) on account of.

gratulor : to wish a person joy, congratulate (+dat.),give thanks

gratus : pleasing, agreeable/grateful.

gravatus : sick, oppressed, ill.

gravis : heavy, weighty, serious, important/severe, grievous.

gravitas : weight, seriousness, dignity, importance.

graviter : heavily, seriously.

gravo : to oppress, burden, make suffer.

gregatim : in troops, or crowds.

gregatim : adv., In flocks, herds, troops, crowds.

gusto : to taste.

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H

habeo habui habitum : (2v) to have, hold, possess/consider, regard.

habitus : disposed, in a certain condition.

hac : this side, this way, here.

hac : (fem. sing. abl.) He who lives BY THIS (the sword), ...

hactenus : hitherto, up to this point, so far.

hae he : (fem. pl. nom) THESE (speeches) were very fine.

haec hec : (fem. sing. nom.) THIS (sword) is more expensive.

haec hec : (neut. pl. nom.) THESE (kisses) are sweeter than wine.

haec hec : (neut. pl. acc.) Deborah always won THESE (wars).

hanc : (fem. sing. acc.) She wasted THIS (her youth).

harum : (fem. pl. gen.) The city wall had four OF THESE (gates).

has : (fem. pl. acc.) They gave THESE (their lives) for the Faith.

Hasnonium : Hasnon.

hecyra, hecyrae (1df)

mother-in-law (CIGL)

haud : no, not at all, by no means.

Helcim : Helchin on the left bank of the Scheldt.

Helnonensis : Elnon. (Herimann, p. 279)

helvella, helvellae (1df)

potherb (CIGL)

Heniis Harniis : Hames.

herba, herbae (1df)

grass (CIGL)

hereditas : inheritance, often simply "property."

hesito (haesito) : to be unsure, uncertain, wavering.

hi : (masc. pl. nom.) THESE (men) are loyal to the king.

hic : (adv.) here.

hic haec (hec ) hoc : this, the latter/he, she, it.

hic : (masc. nom. sing.) THIS (house) is filthy.

hilaris : cheerful, merry, gay.

hinc : from this place, hence.

hippopotamus

hippopotamus (CIGL)

his : (masc. pl. abl.) They passed BY THESE (roads).

his : (masc. pl. dat.) Tell it TO THESE (policemen).

his : (fem. pl. dat.) She gave her property TO THESE (churches).

his : (fem. pl. abl) A life is enriched BY THESE (friendships).

his : (neut. pl. dat.) Listen TO THESE (orders).

his : (neut. pl. abl.) She earned it BY THESE (her deeds).

hoc : (masc. sing. abl.) He gave plenty FOR THIS (field).

hoc : (neut. sing. nom.) THIS (monastery) is well-built.

hoc : (neut. sing. abl.) Do not hesitate BECAUSE OF THIS! (doubt)

hoc : (neut. sing. acc.) Break THIS! (fetter)

hodie : today, nowadays

hodiernus : of today.

Hoienses : Huy, Belgium, between Liege and Namur.

homo, hominis (3dm)

human being, man. (CIGL)

honor, honoris (3df)

honor, esteem, public office. (CIGL)

honorabilis : respectful.

hora : hour, time.

hordeum, ordeum : barley.

horrendus : horrible, dreadful.

hortor : exhort, incite, encourage.

hortus ortus : garden/pl. grounds, park.

horum : (masc. pl. gen.) The horses OF THESE (soldiers) are spent.

horum : (neut. pl. gen) The cattle OF THESE (monsters) were fat.

hos : (masc. pl. acc.) They burned THESE (houses) to the ground.

hospes : guest, host, stranger.

hospita, hospitae (1df)

guest (CIGL)

hostes hostium : the enemy.

hostis : an enemy of the state.

huic : (neut sing. dat.) I'd give my right arm FOR THIS (cooky).

huic : (masc. sing. dat.) He sent FOR THIS (doctor).

huic : (fem sing. dat.) There is a statue IN THIS (abbey).

huius : (masc. fem. neut. gen. sing.) Go ahead, eat some OF THIS.

huius : (neut. sing. gen.) She paid half OF THIS (the cost).

huius : (fem. sing. gen.) They are fond OF THIS (change).

humanitas : kindness, culture, refinement.

humanitate : refined????

humanus

pertaining to man, human, humane, cultured, refined. (CIGL)

humilis : lowly, humble.

humo : cover with earth, bury,

humus : ground, earth, soil/land, country.

hunc : (masc. sing. acc.) He ate THIS (fruit).

Hunnam : Bunna.

hypocrita : hypocrite

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Dot Plot

Pascal

See PascalDotPlot.

C#

New versions will be in C# because I want to learn that language and a real application is the best way to learn. Slightly disillusioned now, so on to PascalDotPlot (was JavaDotPlot).

Parsing

The original tokeniser splits on whitespace; this means that strings such as:

 using System.Windows.Forms; 

appear as two tokens instead of the expected four (or five if you count the semicolon, seven if you count the to dots). This can obscure some similarities but is so much faster and so much simpler to implement than a general parsing algorithm that it is probably the best compromise. The real problem comes in analysing files created in general purpose text editors. Such files do not always include spaces between tokens such as operators. For instance the MS VB IDE editor adds spaces around infix operators, suppresses them before opening brackets, adds them before end of line comments and so on; this has the effect of ensuring that operators are seen as tokens, however, such spacing is not required by the compiler.

For instance the following line is perfectly legal VB:

 A=B+C 

but if you enter it using the VB IDE it will become

 A = B + C     

The first will be seen as one token and the second as five tokens. This is a serious limitation if we think in terms of detecting plagiarism because then we must assume that the programmer of at least one of the files is hostile to the process, on the other hand in professional contexts we are generally looking for sloppy programming that involves verbatim copying without any intent to conceal, only an intent to get the job done as quickly as possible. This means that copied source will tend to have the same spacing as the original even if the programmer has altered it a little to fit its new home.

The problems associated with the original tokenisation method are easily avoided with the .NET framework regular expression class because it has a Split method that allows a regular expression to be used to identify the delimiters.

Implementation Notes

• Make the xGetToken function responsible for the maintenance of the current character position variable
• Connect token axis values directly to token positions in the source documents.
• Drop the current file strings and read the file directly into the text boxes. This should work properly now that I am using C# because the regular expression Split method returns the delimiters as well as the tokens.

New Features

Speed is better after the change to the way the tokens were stored. Now it is time to add more features. The first question is which ones. Possible features include:

• Allow user to specify that files in sub-directories should be processed.
• Allow user to specify a regular expression to match filenames.
• Split on non-word characters using a regular expression.
• Provide flags to ignore delimiters or treat them as tokens
• Allow user to supply a regular expression that identifies delimiters or one that identifies tokens.
• Supply sample regular expressions intended for specific languages
• When clicking in the plot to select text in the files make sure that the selection in the text boxes covers all of the tokens that are represented by the selected pixel. For large texts one screen pixel represents many tokens, perhaps even hundreds of lines.
• All files in a directory,
• Selected files
• Files in a VBP
• Files mentioned in another file such as a make file, SharpDevelop combine, Visual Studio solution, etc.
• zoom
• synchronise selection in text box with selection in picture box so that selecting in text moves a cross hair in the plot.
• use cursor keys in plot
• draw boundary lines between files on the plot
• save plots as jpg, png etc.
• save parsed files and plots so that a session can be restored without reparsing the files or replotting. The reason for this is that large files or sets of files will be very slow.

Improvements to Algorithms

• Instead of parsing line by line just Split the whole file on spaces. This should be faster but how do we connect a token number to the position in the file? One way is to accumulate the offset by adding the token lengths together, must take care of the delimiting spaces. Then we must use the token offset instead of the line offset because we will not know where the line boundaries are.
• Read the whole file and split on end of line characters.

Dotplot in and for VB

Dotplots are two dimensional charts. To produce such a chart two text files are tokenised. The values along the axes are the tokens; imagine the whole text of the file written along the axis.

For example:

 The quick brown fox  The       X             dirty           brown                X dog 

Dots are placed at each intersection point where the tokens are the same. The same technique can look for repeated sequences within a file.

Example with case ignored:

 The quick brown fox and the dirty brown dog The       X                       X                 quick          X                                  brown                X                       X            fox                       X                          and                           X                          the       X                       X                dirty                                  X          brown                X                       X dog                                               X 

Notice that the diagonal line is completely filled and that there are diagonals in the upper right and lower left quadrants.

The purpose of such a plot is to make detection of duplicated code easier. Many academic citations of this method, other than those in biological sciences, tend to couple it with plagiarism detection. While it can of course be used to detect stolen code in software development and in detecting stolen passages from novels and scientific reports my feeling is that the best use for the technique is to aid in software maintenance by making it easy to detect code that has simply been copied and edited in order to get a program up and running quickly. There is nothing wrong with cut and paste development so long as the developer stays awake and refactors the code when the duplication reaches a certain level (one copy is alright, two should make you make a mental note, three means it's time to refactor)

Quick and Dirty Implementation

• Create a simple VB project.
• Read two files
• Convert all to lower case
• Tokenise each line with the Split function using space as the delimiter.
• Discard empty tokens
• Scale a picture box so that the width and height correspond to the number of tokens in each file.
• Iterate over the tokens and place a dot at each point in the picture box that corresponds to identical tokens.

Dotplot versions

DotPlotVersionThree

Token streaming from file list. Multiple files.

DotPlotVersionTwo

Improved data structures that speed up plotting by not requiring string comparisons.

DotPlotVersionOne

Simple version that plots the correspondence between two files and has a slow plotter.

Links to dotplot resources on the web

Google search for dotplot

finds altogether too many hits. Mostly from the molecular biology field, interesting but only occasionally directly relevant.

Google search for: dotplot source code

Much better.

Jonathan Helfman and Ken Church

This has to be the best, most compact and most easily digested introduction to the concepts of dotplots.

Visual Detection of Duplicated Code

Rieger and Ducasse at Berne.

www.uia.ac.be/u/lore/Research/phdprojects.html#DuplicationInTraces"> Identifying Duplication in Program Traces

Interesting suggestion for using dotplots to examine not the static structure but the behaviour of a program.

Mi-Nyeong Hwang, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Do-Hoon Lee, and Hwan-Gue Cho

An overview paper in M$ Word format (yuck) giving a little more background and some cross references to biological uses for dot plots.

Genetics Computer Group

The manual for a real commercial dot plotting programming used for DNA analysis.

Peter J. Balafas

A dissertation on plagiarism detection from Loughborough University. I've only scanned it briefly, largely because I am allergic to the whole idea of automated plagiarism detection. Just in case you care you can find my reasoning on the IrrelevantAsides page

Paul Clough - Dotplot: Visually exploring patterns in text

Another presentation of the Meter project that is the subject of Balafas' paper, this time from Sheffield University

Links to related pages

Real artificial life: Where we may be

Very interesting paper on software as a living system. Makes passing reference to dotplots in Software genetics.

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Not Ant

NAnt

Brilliant utility to build C# and other .Net programs. In fact of course it could build other types of program if you add classes to drive the compilers. It works like make except that the syntax is more readable and is based on .Net classes instead of shell commands.

Get it from NAnt at Sourceforge now!

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Irrelevant Asides

Moans and Whines

Why can't people put dates on web pages? It's infuriating to find an interesting web site and then when you try to track down the author to praise him/her/it or whatever you can't find her/it/him because it/he/she wrote the site five years ago and then moved to another ISP/host/university/company/planet. It's not hard to do, especially if you use intelligent tools like Emacs Wiki Mode (thanks again JohnWiegley).

Winamp

Am I the only person in the world who dislikes Winamp? In fact it's more than dislike: I think it has one of the worst user interfaces ever created and I regard myself as something of an expert in that having created some absolutely screamingly awful things myself, not to mention having to use many of M$'s worst offerings!

Compilers

Came across yet another reason to dislike M$. I accidentally added a dot before a constant name in an err.raise statement in a VB6 program. The compiler silently compiled this and it wasn't until I ran it on a machine that tripped the error that this fault showed up. Of course it was in the error handling code so instead of showing me my nice pop up dialog and logging it to the log file it simply crashed with M$'s unhelpful 'does not support this method' message. I had to instrument half the program (well it seemed like that!) before I tracked it down.

I know that unit tests might have helped but really this is a simple piece of static analysis that is part of the compiler anyway!

And getting enough coverage to trip all the errors in unit tests would be a major job both to create and to maintain.

Automated Plagiarism Detection

I have been searching for tools to help maintain medium sized software projects for some time. In a large program created by a geographically, culturaly, and educationally diverse programming team one problem that recurs over and over is code that is copied from place to place to solve several similar problems. This is a problem because if the original copy of the algorithm has a bug then the copies quite likely have it too, unfortunately the author of the original may not be aware that the code has been copied nor by whom so it is difficult for him or her to fix all the copies. This is just the standard argument for parametric procedures. So it would be good to have a method that would let us scour the code for duplicates and near duplicates, but when I ask Google to find pages matching 'code similarity' many of the hits are academics complaining that their students present copies of someone else's work as their own and then crowing that they have created a wonderful new tool to detect such plagiarism. The tool is, of course, never open source and is only available to bona fide academics just in case the students could figure out how it works and thus defeat it. The only open source code that i know of for this purpose is my own implementation of the DotPlot 'algorithm'.

This page is my counter blast to automated plagiarism detection.

It seems to me that the justification for the development of automated plagiarism detectors rests on faulty foundations. The argument seems to go something like this:

• plagiarism is a form of cheating,
• cheating is a way of gaining monetary or other advantage with less effort than doing proper work, that is, it is unfair,
• those responsible for awarding degrees, certificates, etc. are only willing to look at the end result of a process,

therefore we must have automated methods of detecting plagiarism.

I hope I haven't created a straw man here. Anyway the argument is arrant drivel, at least as far as software development is concerned. All good programmers plagiarise other programmers' work for the simple and honourable reason that one can see further by standing on the shoulders of a giant (to paraphrase Newton). Even standing on the shoulders of a pygmy can help you see over the tall grass. It seems to me that the real driving force behind automated plagiarism detection computer science courses is that the instructors are following a mechanical process where the only requirement to pass the course is to produce a finished piece (no doubt several pieces) of work that performs according to the specification. Well, in the real world of software development there is almost never a finished program, only one that is temporarily stable enough to use while the developer takes a breather and tries to map his way to the next version. Software development is a process, no amount of examination of the final result will tell you how good the developer was at dealing with incomplete and contradictory specifications, deadlines that were totally unreasonable, customers who change the rules half way though. Plagiarism detection would be unnecessary if the avowed purpose of the computer science course was to produce students who could cope with those difficulties because the grades awarded would depend more on the students behaviour and less on the actual text of the final program. One classic way of achieving some part of this is to conduct a viva voce examination, known in the software development industry as a code review. In an academic context this could be done in the old fashioned IBM style where the author is required not merely to explain the code but to defend the decisions that produced it. This means that the student would have to maintain a log book containing notes showing the development of the solution to the programming problem. Another way of expressing this is to say that computer science course should be more like physics where the actual answer is less important than the log showing the method that was used to arrive at it. A physics student is not penalised for repeating one of Faraday's experiments, quite the reverse, he would be praised if he succeeded in performing it as well as the great man. On the other hand even if he made a much more accurate determination of the force due to the charge on two plates than Faraday no one would be particulary interested unless the method were different, it is the process that counts.

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Basic Latin

According to Tolle, lege! 1400 words cover 80% of all Classical Latin text. So here is a copy of the list from that site. For my own dictionary see this document LatinDictionary. The Tolle, lege! site has disappeared and the link now points at a local mirror on my own hard disk (useful to me but not to you, sorry) but there are links on the web to other pages by the same author. Try Latin Poetry by Vojin Nedeljkovic for something a little newer than the usual texts.

Tolle, lege!

The Fourteen Hundred

Did you know that being familiar with approximately 1400 Latin words enables you to read almost any Latin text without having to use the dictionary more than a couple of times per page? Those 1400 words make up what is called the basic Latin vocabulary. At least 80 per cent of any Latin text is made of words belonging to the basic vocabulary.

The following word list is based mainly on E. Habenstein-E. Hermes-H. Zimmermann, Grund- und Aufbauwortschatz Latein, Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag 1990. (The book itself is very intelligent and quite handy: a great relief for the beginner.) You may wish to keep this list for future reference, so that you can either (1) read it and mark the entries you do not recognise, then build up your vocabulary by learning those first, or (2) use it while you work on a Latin text to decide whether a word you are looking up in the dictionary deserves special attention.

I (KJW) have added the output from Perry Rapp's Verba (William Whitaker's Words) where I have used this list and Verba to help me translate.

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A

a /ab /abs

abesse

abire

absens

abstinere

accedere

accidere

accipere

accusare

acer

acerbus

acies

ad

addere

adducere

adeo (adv.)

adesse

adhibere

adhuc

adimere

adipisci

adire

aditus

adjungere

adjuvare

administrare

admirari

admittere

admodum

admonere

adoriri

adulescens

adulescentia

adventus

adversus (adj.)

adversus (prep.)

aedes

aedes (~ium)

aedificare

aegre

aeque

aequus

aer

aes

aestas

aestimare

aetas

afferre

afficere

affirmare

ager

agere

aggredi

agitare

agmen

ajo

alere

alibi

alienus

aliquando

aliquanto

aliquantus

aliqui

aliquid

aliquis

aliquot

aliter

alius

alter

altitudo

altus

amare

ambitio

amicitia

amicus

amittere

amnis

amor

amplius

amplus

an

anceps

angustus

anima

animadvertere

animus

annus

ante

antea

antequam

antiquus

aperire

apparere

appellare

appetere

aptus

apud

aqua

arbitrari

arbor

arcere

arcessere

argentum

arguere

arma (~orum)

ars

artificium

arx

ascendere

asper

aspicere

assequi

at

atque / ac

attingere

auctor

auctoritas

audacia

audax

audere

audire

auferre

augere

auris

aurum

aut

autem

auxilia (~orum)

auxilium

avaritia

avertere

avia

avus

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B

beatus

bellum

bene

beneficium

bibere

bis

bonus

brevis

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C

cadere

caedere

caedes

caelum

calamitas

calidus

campus

capere

caput

carere

carmen

carus

castra

casus

causa

cavere

cedere

celebrare

celer

censere

centum

cernere

certamen

certare

certe

certiorem facere

certo

certus

ceteri

cingere

circa

circiter

circum

civilis

civis

civitas

clam

clamare

clamor

clarus

classis

claudere

cliens

coercere

cogere

cogitare

cognoscere

cohors

colere

collega

colligere

collis

collocare

colloqui

comes

commemorare

commendare

committere

commodus

commovere

communis

comparare

comperire

complere

complures

componere

comprehendere

conari

concedere

concidere (i

short)

concilium

concordia

concurrere

concursus

condere

condicio

conducere

conferre

conficere

confidere

confirmare

confligere

conjicere

conjungere

conjuratio

conjux / conjunx

conquirere

consequi

conservare

considere

consilium

consistere

conspectus

conspicere

constans

constare

constituere

consuescere

consuetudo

consul

consularis

consulatus

consulere

consumere

contemnere

contendere

contentio

continere

contingere

continuus

contio

contra

convenire

conventus

convocare

copia

copiae (~arum)

cor

coram

cornu

corpus

corrumpere

cottidianus

cottidie

cras

creber

crebro

credere

crescere

crimen

crudelis

cujusmodi

culpa

cum (conj.)

cum (prep.)

cum

ADV POS, ADV POS, ADV COMP, ADV SUPER when, at the time/on each occasion/in the situation that; after; since, although

cum

ADV POS, ADV POS, ADV COMP, ADV SUPER |as soon; while, as (well as); whereas, in that, seeing that; on/during which;

cum

PREP ABL with, together/jointly/along/simultaneous with, amid; supporting; attached;

cum PREP ABL

under command/at the head of;

having/containing/including; using/by means of;

cunctus

cupere

cupiditas

cupidus

cur.cura

curare

curia

currere

cursus

custos

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D

damnare

dare

de

dea

debere

decedere

decem

decernere

decimus

declarare

dedere

deducere

deesse

defendere

deferre

deficere

deinde

delectare

delectari

delere

deligere

demonstrare

denique

deponere

deportare

descendere

deserere

desiderare

desinere

desperare

deus

dexter

dicere

dies

differre

difficilis

dignitas

dignus

diligens

diligentia

diligere

dimittere

discedere

discere

disciplina

disputare

dissimilis

dissimulare

dissuadere

diu

diversus

dives

dividere

divinus

divitiae (~arum)

divus

docere

dolere

dolor

domina

dominus

domus

donare

donum

dormire

dubitare

dubius

ducenti

ducere

dulcis

dum

dummodo

duo

duodecim

durus

dux

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E

e / ex

edere (initial e

long)

edere (initial e

short)

educere

efferre

efficere

effugere

egere

ego

egredi

egregius

ejusmodi

emere

enim

eo (adv.)

epistula

eques

equitatus

equus

erga

ergo

erigere

eripere

errare

esse

et

etenim

etiam

etiamsi

etsi

evenire

eventus

excedere

excipere

excitare

exemplum

exercere

exercitus

exire

existimare

exitus

expellere

experiri

explorare

exponere

expugnare

exsilium

exspectare

exstinguere

extemplo

exterior

extra

extremus

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F

fabula

facere

facilis

facinus

factum

facultas

fallere

falli

falsus

fama

familia

familiaris

fas est

fateri

fatum

fere

ferme

ferox

ferre

ferrum

fidelis

fides

fieri

filia

filius

fines (~ium)

fingere

finis

finitimus

firmare

firmus

flagitium

flamma

flectere

flere

florere

fluctus

fluere

flumen

foedus (~eris)

forma

formosus

fortasse

forte

fortis

fortuna

forum

frangere

frater

fraus

frequens

frigidus

frigus

fructus

frui

frumentum

frustra

fuga

fugere

fundere

funus

furor

furtum

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G

gaudere

gens

genus

gerere

gladius

gloria

gradus

grandis

gratia

gratus

gravis

gravitas

---

H

habere

habitare

haud

heri

hic

hic (adv.)

hiems

hinc

hodie

homo

honestus

honor

hora

horrere

hortari

hospes

hostis

huc

hujusmodi

humanitas

humanus

humilis

humus

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I

ibi

idcirco

idem

ideo

idoneus

igitur

ignarus

ignis

ignorare

ignoscere

ignotus

ille

illuc

illustris

imago

imminere

immo

immortalis

impedimenta

(~orum)

impedimentum

impedire

imperare

imperator

imperium

impetrare

impetus

imponere

improbus

in

inanis

incendere

incendium

incertus

incipere

incitare

includere

incolere

incolumis

incredibilis

inde

indicium

indignus

inducere

inferior

inferre

infirmus

infra

ingenium

ingens

ingredi

inimicus

iniquus

initium

injuria

inopia

inquit

insidiae (~arum)

insignis

instare

instituere

institutum

instruere

insula

integer

intellegere

intendere

inter

interdum

interea

interesse

interficere

interim

interior

interire

intimus

intra

intro

intus

invenire

invidere

invidia

invitus

ipse

ira

ire

is

iste

istic

istinc

istuc

ita

itaque

item

iter

iterum

---

J

jacere (2nd)

jacere (3rd)

jactare

jam

jubere

jucundus

judex

judicare

judicium

jugum

jungere

jurare

jus

jus jurandum

jussu

justus

juvare

juvenis

juventus

---

L

labor (~oris)

laborare

lacrima

laedere

laetari

laetus

lapis

latus (~eris)

laudare

laus

lavare

lavari

legatio

legatus

legere

legio

lenis

levare

levis (e short)

lex

libenter

liber (~a ~um)

liber (libri)

liberare

liberi (~orum)

libertas

libido

licet

lignum

lingua

littera

litterae (~arum)

litus

locare.locus

longe

longus

loqui

ludere

ludus

luna

lux

luxuria

---

M

magis

magistratus

magnitudo

magnopere

magnus

male

malle

malus (~a ~um)

mandare

mane

manere

manus

mare

mater

materia

maturus

maxime

mediocris

medium

medius (~a ~um)

meminisse

memor

memorare

memoria

mens

mensis

merere / ~ri

merito

meritum

metuere

metus

meus

miles

militaris

militia

mille

minari

minime

ministrare

minuere

minus

mirari

mirus

miscere

miser

misericordia

mittere

modicus

modo

modus

moenia (~ium)

moles

molestia

molestus

mollis

monere

mons

monstrare

monumentum

mora

morari

morbus

mores (~um)

mori

mors

mortalis

mos

motus

movere

mulier

multitudo

multo (adv.)

multum

multus

munire

munitio

munus

murus

mutare

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#

N

nam

nancisci

narrare

nasci

natio

natura

navis

ne

ne .. quidem

necessario

necessarius

necesse est

necessitas

necne

nefarius

nefas est

negare

neglegere

negotium

nemo

nequaquam

neque / nec

nescire

neve / neu

nihil

nihilo

nihilominus

nimis

nimium

nimius

nisi / ni

niti

nobilis

nobilitas

nocere

noctu

nolle

nomen

nominare

non

non jam

non modo

non solum

nondum

nonne

nonnulli

nonnumquam

nos

noscere

noster

notus

novem

novisse

novus

nox

nudus

nullus

num

numen

numerus

numquam

nunc

nuntiare

nuntius

nuper

nusquam

---

O

ob

objicere

oblivisci

obscurus

obses

obsidere

obtinere

obviam

occasio

occidere (i long)

occultare

occultus

occupare

occurrere

octo

oculus

odisse

odium

offendere

offerre

officium

olim

omittere

omnino

omnis

onus

opera

opes (~um)

opinari

opinio

oportet

oppidum

opportunus

opprimere

oppugnare

ops

optare

opus

opus est

ora

orare

oratio

orator

orbis

ordo

origo

oriri

ornamentum

ornare

os (oris)

ostendere

otium

---

P

paene

palam

par

parare

parcere

parens

parere (2nd)

parere (3rd)

pariter

pars

partim

parum

parvus

passus

pater

patere

pati

patres (~um)

patria

patrius

pauci

paulatim

paulo

paulum

pauper

pax

pectus

pecunia

pecus

pedes (~itis)

pellere

pendere (2nd)

pendere (3rd)

per

perdere

perditus

perfectus

perferre

perficere

pergere

periculum

perire

permanere

permittere

pernicies

perpetuus

persequi

perspicere

persuadere

perterrere

pertinere

perturbare

pervenire

pes

petere

petitio

pietas

pingere

pius

placere

plane

plebs

plenus

plerique

plerumque

plus

poculum

poena

polliceri

pondus

ponere

pons

populus (o short)

porta

portus

poscere

posse

possidere

post

postea

posterus

postquam /

posteaquam

postremo

postremus

postridie

postulare

potens

potentia

potestas

potiri

potius

prae

praebere

praeceptum

praecipere

praeclarus

praeda

praeesse

praemium

praesens

praesertim

praesidium

praestans

praestare

praesto esse

praeter

praeterea

praeterire

praetor

praetura

preces (~um)

premere

pretium

pridie

primo

primum

primus

princeps

principium

prior

priusquam

privatus

pro

probare

probus

procedere

procul

prodere

prodesse

producere

proelium

profecto

proferre

proficisci

proficisc.eretur V 3 1 IMPF PASSIVE SUB depart, set out; proceed;

progredi

prohibere

promittere

promptus

prope

propinquus

propior

proponere

proprius

propter

propterea

providere

provincia

proximus

prudentia

publicus

pudor

puella

puer

pueri (~orum)

pugna

pugnare

pulcher

purus

putare

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Q

qua (adv.)

quaerere

quaeso

qualis

quam

quamobrem

quamquam

quando

quanto

quantum

quantus

quare

quartus

quasi

quattuor

quemadmodum.queri

qui (quae quod)

quia

quicumque

quid

quidam

quiddam

quidem

quidquam

quidque

quidquid

quidvis

quies

quietus

quin

quinetiam

quinque

quis

quisquam

quisque

quisquis

quivis

quo

quoad

quod

quodammodo

quominus

quondam

quoniam

quoque

quot

quotannis

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R

rapere

ratio

recens

recipere

recitare

rectus

reddere

redire

reditus

reducere

referre

reficere

regere

regio

regius

regnum

religio

relinquere

reliquus

remanere

removere

repente

repentinus

reperire

repetere

reprehendere

requirere

reri

res

res adversae

res familiaris

res novae

res publica

res secundae

resistere

respondere

restituere

retinere

reus

reverti

revocare

rex

ridere

ripa

rogare

ruina

ruinae (~arum)

rumor

rumpere

rursus

---

S

sacer

sacerdos

sacrum

saeculum

saepe

saevus

salus

salutare

sanctus

sane

sanguis

sanus

sapiens

sapientia

satis

saxum

scelus

scientia

scilicet

scire

scribere

se

se conferre

se gerere

se jactare

se recipere

secundum

secundus

secus

sed

sed etiam

sedere

sedes

semel

semper

senator

senatus

senectus

senex

sensus

sententia

sentire

septem

sequi

sermo

sero

servare

servire

servitus

servus

severus

sex

si

sic

sicut

significare

signum

silentium

silva

similis

simul

simulacrum

simulare

simulatque /

simulac

sin

sine

sinere

singularis

singuli

sinister

sistere

situs (~a ~um)

sive / seu

societas

socius

sol

solere

solitus

sollicitare

sollicitus

solus

solvere

somnium

somnus

soror

sors

spatium

species

spectare

sperare

spes

sponte

stare

statim

statua

statuere

status

sternere

struere

studere

studiosus

studium

stultus

suadere

suavis

sub

subire

subito

subitus

subjicere

subsidium

succedere

sumere

summus

sumptus

super

superare

superbia

superbus

superesse

superior

supplicium

supra

surgere

suscipere

suspicari

suspicere

suspicio

sustinere

suus

---

T

tabula

tacere

talis

tam

tamen

tametsi

tamquam

tandem

tangere

tanto

tantum

tantummodo

tantus

tardus

tectum

tegere

telum

temere

temperare

tempestas

templum

temptare

tempus

tendere

tenere

tenuis

ter

tergum

terra

terrere

tertius

testimonium

testis

timere

timor

tolerare

tollere

tot

totus

tractare

tradere

traducere

trahere

trajicere

trans

transferre

transire

tres

tribuere

tribunus

triginta

tristis

tu

tueri

tum

tumultus

tunc

turba

turpis

turris

tuto

tutus

tuus

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U

ubi

ubi primum

ubicumque

ubique

ullus

ultimus

umquam

una

unda

unde

undique

universus

unumquidque

unus

unusquisque

urbs

urgere

usque

usus

ut

uter

uterque

uti

utilis

utilitas

utinam

utique

utrum

uxor

---

V

vacuus

valde

valere

valetudo

validus

varius

vas

vehemens

vehere

vehi

vel

velle

velut

vendere

venenum

venire (venio)

ventus

verbum

vereri

vero

versari

versus (~us)

vertere

verum (conj.)

verum (~i)

verum etiam

verus

vester

vestigium

vestis

vetus

via

victor

victoria

videlicet

videre

videri

vigilare

vigilia

viginti

villa

vincere

vinculum

vindicare

violare

vir

vires (~ium)

virgo

virtus

vis

visere

vita

vitare

vitium

vivere

vivus

vix

vocare

voluntas

voluptas

volvere

vos

vox

vulgo

vulgus

vulnerare

vulnus

vultus

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Latin Notes

Miscellaneous notes on Learning Latin. See Claude Pavur's web site at St. Louis Uni. Almost everything good that I have written here has been extracted from his writings (no longer true, I have plundered many others web pages since). The mistakes are all my own.

Another site well worth a visit is C. J. Cherryh's Latin Language.

In addition to my haphazard do it myself course I tried to follow Peter Jone's Telegraph course but it was removed before I tried to mirror it. The notes for what I have begin here: PeterJonesNotes.

Follow the links in SubjectCategories to see related pages.

Found another course, sprachprofi, that is very suitable for a complete beginner and has a very different emphasis from Peter Jones' course, instead of grammar it concentrates first on comprehension. Perhaps they will be complementary. I've jotted down some notes in SprachProfi.

Here are some more pages on Latin:

BasicLatin DeBello DefiNitions GraspCustodes GraspDeBello GraspExercises HardLittleWords LatinDictionary LatinNotes LearningMethods PeterJonesNotes ProNunciation SprachProfi SprachProfiVocab StemNotes TextConflicts TotalParsing VerbFirst VerbSum VerbThird WorDs WordConstruction

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Csharp Layout

Layout routines for C#

I heartily dislike drag and drop form designers. They seem so easy to use but as soon as you need any fine control they let you down. I always liked the simple containers that the Java user interface libraries have that automatically size their contents and arrange them in columns or rows.

So I have decide to create something like it in C#. I originally thought of creating new classes derived from Panel but I think that is is simpler to simply create some functions that take panels and other controls as argument.

Example code will be found in layout.

Row

Add a list of controls to a panel so that they are in left to right order on the screen. Specify the panel first then the left most control, then the rest in order. The function searches the list of controls to discover which has dock=Fill. This must be either the first or the last. The controls are added to the Controls list of the panel either from left to right or from right to left depending on the location of the Fill control. Of course the other controls must have the appropriate DockStyle, Left or Right as appropriate.

Column

As Row except that where Row speaks of Left Column speaks of Top and so on.

Both functions return the panel as their value. This lets us write code that shows the hierrchical structure of the layout. You can then build up the layout piece by piece replacing simple elements with Rows or Columns as you go:

 Column(panelTop, splitterH, panelText); 

You can compile it and check that it works. Now expand it by adding controls to the top panel:

 Column(Row(panelTop, picDotPlot, panelTopRight),  splitterH,  panelText); <example>  The example is intended as preparation for the use of this idea in DotPlot.  <example> Column(Row(panelTop, picDotPlot,  Column(panelTopRight,  buttonGo, frameDotScaling, frameParsing),  splitterH,  Row(panelText,  Column(panelText1, comboFile1, textFile1),  Column(panelText2, comboFile2, textFile2)); 

All the examples assume that the various controls already exist and that all the relevant properties have been set.

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Math Cad

/ LiveMaths

MathCad is mathematical document processor. It looks rather like a traditional word processor except that when you embed an equation you are actually creating a function that can calculate the value. In addition to simple arithmetic it has many functions for charting and equation system solving in adition to automatic dimensional analysis.

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Stretch Image

StretchImage is discussed in PictureBox

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Current Version

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My Software

My software

I write programs for a living but not many of them would be useful to the outside world even if I were able to give away the code; however I do have a few odds and ends that might be useful

Some notes on ideas for programs will be found in ProposedPrograms.

Visual Basic Mode for Emacs

This is a mode for Emacs for editing and formatting Visual Basic 6 code. I suppose it should work for all versions of VB from 4 onwards but I have only tested it on VB6 source code. It might not work on source for VB.NET because of changes to the syntax regarding property functions; I'll have to take a look at it when I have some VB.NET code to work with.

I didn't write all of this but I did fix it up to work in the latest version of Emacs (20.5). Unfortunately there seems to be a problem using it with 21.2.1, I keep getting minor errors but if I load the files .elc before trying to use them instead of relying on the autoload mechanism they work fine.

There are just two files: one to load a VBP or VBG file and another to load and fontify a Visual Basic source file (.cls, .bas, .frm):

visual-basic-mode.el

This is the main file, it fontifies and formats Visual Basic code.

vbp-mode.el

Loads a project file and then all of the source files mentioned within it.

Acknowledgements

As mentioned earlier, I didn't write the original visual-basic-mode.el I just maintain it and occasionally enhance it. Here I say thank you to those who have helped.

Fred White

Wrote the original, a much greater achievement than my additions.

Dave Love

of Daresbury Laboratory in the UK, very helpful and knowledgeable about Emacs Lisp.

Christian Lemburg

Complained that it didn't work in XEmacs but didn't stop there, he fixed it and tracked me down to get the fix put back into the source. That's what open source is all about. Unfortunately the reason it didn't work was a difference in the way Emacs and XEmacs treat strings and characters (I think) so if I apply his patch then it won't work in Emacs, I have to try to figure out how to make it adapt itself to the two environments.

Visual Basic Mode for Visual Basic

When I discovered the regular expression classes of VBA it dawned on me that I could make a VB version of the formatting feature of the mode. The core of the job was simply to recreate all the regular expressions and package them in a class called Pretty.

This can be used as a formatting engine in an Add-In (already created and in use) or a standalone formatter (in progress). You can download the files from here:

Engine

pretty.cls, point.cls, pretty.bas

Add-In

prettyoptions.frm, prettyoptions.frx, connect.dsr, connect.dca, modmain.bas, prettyaddin.vbp

Standalone Formatter

Not ready yet.

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Cell Tracking

/ index

Introduction

Constraints

Component Overview

Requirements

Information required

Reference

Debugging and Exception handling

Launch program at start

Launch program at intervals

Cause a program to sleep

Save information to a file

Copy file to the computer

Read and write EXIF and IPTC tags

Find photographs in the mobile

Respond to events in the mobile

Read a database of cell locations

Update the cell location database from public resources

Transfer cell location database to mobile

Webservices

Introduction

I have several digital cameras and a Nokia N73 mobile. The mobile knows where it is at all times because the network tells it the ID of the cell in which it is sitting. The mobile also has a camera which is very handy because, unlike my other cameras, it is always with me so whenever I see something interesting I can snap it.

This means I take more pictures than before so now I have an even greater problem of identifying the locations, or will have in the future.

But if I can write a simple program to log the names of the cells I can surely write another program that can look at the dates and times of the photographs and match them with entries in the log. then I can add the cell ids to the IPTC data of the photographs.

I can make another list that can translate between cell ids and locations so that the actual location can be added to the photograph as well.

The rest of this page contains notes about what the application suite should do. Example code will be found in CellTrackingCode.

Constraints

• All code running on the mobile should be in Python.
• All code running on the computer must be usable in Ubuntu Linux 7.04 on x86. Python to be the preferred language and toolkit.

Component Overview

To make this work I need several pieces of sofware and some data files:

Cell tracker

an application running on the mobile that records the date and time of entry to each cell.

Photo tagger

an application running on my computer that reads the date and time at which each photograph was taken and searches the log for a matching date and time so that it can add the cell id and location to the photograph.

Database

a list of cell ids and location names

The tagger runs on the computer so that it can tag phographs not taken by the mobile. If it were written in Python it should be possible to run it on the mobile as well so that the pictures are tagged immediately after being taken.

Requirements

The cell tracker must:

• run continually,
• not drain the battery too fast,
• not require Internet access,

The cell location database must be:

• amenable to manual updating,
• amenable to automatic updating from public resources.

The tagger must:

• operate as a command line program,
• be safe. That is it must not disturb existing tags,
• inform the user when a photograph has tags that conflict with the tag that the tagger wants to apply.

Information required

To comply with the requirements I need to know how to:

• launch a program when the mobile is started,
• launch a program at intervals or how to cause a program to sleep in the intervals,
• save information to a file,
• copy that file to the computer,
• read and write IPTC tags in photograph files,
• determine the date and time a photograph was taken. This can come from the EXIF tags or, sometimes, from the filename,
• find photographs in the mobile and apply tags to them immediately,
• discover that a new photograph has been taken and which it is,
• read a database of cell ids and locations,
• update the cell location database manually,
• update the cell location database from public resources.

Reference

Details of API calls, web services, IPTC and EXIF tags etc.

Debugging and Exception handling

See http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Python_debugging_techniques

 try: # Actual program is here. 1 / 0 except: import sys import traceback import e32 import appuifw appuifw.app.screen="normal"               # Restore screen to normal size. appuifw.app.focus=None                    # Disable focus callback. body=appuifw.Text() appuifw.app.body=body                     # Create and use a text control. applock=e32.Ao_lock() def quit():applock.signal() appuifw.app.exit_key_handler=quit         # Override softkey handler. appuifw.app.menu=[(u"Exit", quit)]        # Override application menu. body.set(unicode("\n".join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())))) applock.wait()                            # Wait for exit key to be pressed. appuifw.app.set_exit()  

Launch program at start

Rumour has it that Open Signed Online applications can't do this. I'll set the flag next time I try Ensymble.

Launch program at intervals

Nokia don't even provide proper repeating calendar entries so this might be difficult.

Cause a program to sleep

Use e32.ao_sleep(interval_seconds). See API_Reference_for_Python.pdf.

From: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/738

This could be used to create a repeat loop for every interval. I show this in a previous snippet.

 import e32, time  def showtime(): print time.clock() e32.ao_sleep(1, showtime)  # sleep then call itself again  showtime()  # start the loop 

Save information to a file

Copy file to the computer

Read and write EXIF and IPTC tags

Thanks to http://akuaku.org/archives/2003/05/gps_tagged_jpeg.shtml for a useful link.

Use pyexif.

Find photographs in the mobile

Just assume that they are in c:\DATA\Images.

Respond to events in the mobile

Read a database of cell locations

Initially the simplest thing to do will be to use a text file with the cell id,mnc, mcc, lac as the first fields and the rest of the line the cell description.

Update the cell location database from public resources

There are many public cell location resources but there appears to be no common API or file format and the coverage is extremely variable

Yahoo ZoneTags

Yahoo has a webservice for retrieving and updating a cell location database: ZoneTag Web Services.

To retrieve the data for a cell it is enough to construct a URL containing the cellid, mcc, lac, and mnc values returned by gsm_location(). The web service will send back an xml document containing one or more location elements the child elements of which contain the information you want (name, country, coordinates, post code, etc.).

Unfortunately coverage is sparse. Still this is worthwhile.

This generates some secondary requirements:

• need to be able to interrogate a web service using a url,
• need to be able to parse the xml document that is returned.

Janus Liebregts

At http://janus.liebregts.nl/cellid/index_en.html there are links to xml files containing some data for UK, NL, and FR.

The xml holds cellid, network id, and free text description

The page also has links for other resources.

Jürgen Morhöfer

At http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/gsm/gsm-list.html is a list of network operator codes.

Nobbis GSM-Seiten

Another list of operators is at http://www.nobbi.com/netw_country.htm.

Sites listing themselves as member of senderliste.de use the same format for their pages.

Matthias Fonfara

Cells in Rhein-Main: http://www.senderlisteffm.de/

Cell Spotting

At http://cellspotting.com/thick/browse.php. Unfortunately the database is not downloadable.

Antenna Search

At http://www.antennasearch.com/sitestart.asp is a service that does a lookup of cells given the street address (USA only).

This service could be used to populate the database for areas you have visited or intend to visit. Unfortunately the reports it provides do not give enough information to decide if an antenna is a cell or not let alone the cell id, mnc, mcc, and lac.

Transfer cell location database to mobile

Webservices

To retrieve data from ZoneTag Web Services we must be able issue a REST query and parse the returned document.

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Latin Dictionary

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Legend

Examples

Non-dictionary forms

Dictinary Pages

Original from: UBC SunSITE, additions and corrections by KJW taken from the vocabulary in BooKs:debello, BooKs:euplatinenglish, SprachProfiVocab and others (see also WebLinks).

Naturally any mistakes are likely to be mine so send complaints and corrects to me before complaining to my sources.

Legend

I have marked some of those entries that I have used particularly with abbreviations to show which declension or conjugation a word belongs to. An Arabic numeral followed by v denotes a verb of the indicated conjugation, a numeral followed by d denotes the declension. Gender is marked by f, m, or n.

Some words are marked either to indicate the source document or as a reminder that the word forms part of the vocabulary of a particular textbook.

UBC

UBC SunSITE, the source of the bulk of the words but it only gave the nominative and no idication of declension, conjugation, or gender,

CIGL

Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin. This book has far fewer words but is very focussed, the word lists give nominative and genitive as well as gender.

Examples

I have added examples for some words when I looked them up during my studies and felt that an example would help me later. Many are drawn from Judith Meyer's Sprachprofi Latin course.

Non-dictionary forms

I have added inflected words here too because a beginner like me has trouble deciding what the root might be. Especially for irregular verbs like sum (see fuistis).

Those verbs that form part of the CIGL vocabulary are listed ast first person singular, third person singular, third person plural instead of the more usual first person, infinitive, perfect active, perfect, passive.

The page is a bit big for a single web page even in these days of large screens and fast connections so I have split it into several smaller pages.

Dictinary Pages

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