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Reading Croatian Latin through Lucretius

To demonstrate and explore possibilities of large-scale searching in digital text collections of Latin literature, I query the Croatiae auctores Latini (CroALa) corpus, comprising a selection of Latin texts written by Croatian authors (or authors connected with Croatia) during the thousand years between 976 and 1984, for matches of clausulae from De rerum natura. A search for some 7, 400 Lucretian clausulae over some 228, 000 verses currently in CroALa results in 1, 994 cases of at least one match, with 5, 529 unique lines of Croatian Latin poetry matching the clausulae. A simple heuristic decision chain is used to concentrate on interesting matches ; some of them are presented and interpreted as a brief introduction to Croatian Latin sub specie Lucretii.

classical reception ; Neo-Latin ; Croatia ; hexameter ; clausula ; intertextuality

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