Scansion card
Scansion marks each syllable of a line as long or short and groups the syllables into feet, each a dactyl (¯ ˘ ˘) or a spondee (¯ ¯). Every word in the corpus carries its own metrical record: its syllable shape and the feet it occupies in the line.
- Scan lines word by word: each word appears under its own metrical marks (¯ long, ˘ short), with the feet it occupies and the line's derived foot pattern. Pick a scope and click Show view.
- Limit the scope to a single work, a book within it, and a verse or verse range (e.g. 1-5) before running.
Grammatical category (optional): restrict to words of a chosen part of speech and inflection
In Where a word falls, leave the word box empty and set a category to see the metrical position of that whole category. Grammar is read off each token's own analysis in the corpus.
Word search card
Every scanned token carries its own metrical record: its shape (H = heavy/long, L = light/short, one letter per syllable, so μῆνιν is HL), the foot it begins and ends in (1–6), and its position within those feet (1 = the princeps). This panel searches those records token by token and lists each match with all of them.
- Scope: pick a work to reveal its books and a verse box that takes a single verse (212) or a range (212-415).
- Metrical filters: type a shape (the menu narrows the attested shapes as you type, or click to browse), and pin the starting or ending foot and the position within it.
- Word searches: Lemma contains and Form contains find parts of the word, accent-insensitively;
#abcanchors the start,abc#the end, and a toggle switches both to regular expressions. Exact lemma pins down one dictionary form and offers the corpus lemma list as you type. All three accept Greek (accents optional), Beta Code, or English. - SQL: the controls write an ordinary read-only query you can inspect and edit by hand.
1. Filter
Find scanned words by scope, metrical record, lemma, or form. Choose any values and Apply; results are paginated.
#abc searches the start of the word, abc# the end, and #abc# finds an exact sequence match. ab*c searches for words that contain ab followed by any number of letters then c. You can also use regular expressions to query forms and lemmas.
Read-only SQL over table morphology. Reserved-word columns are quoted, e.g. WHERE "case" = 'g'.
Ready: write SQL and press Enter.