Daily Archives: Saturday: March 25, 2006

Testing a New Format

Posted on Saturday: March 25, 2006 by Michael Hendry

I’ve been mulling over the problem of displaying texts with facing translations on the web. It is not as easy as it should be to make it work with various combinations of browser, screen size, and font size. For my … Continue reading →

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Half-Empty or Half-Full? Take Your Pick.

Posted on Saturday: March 25, 2006 by Michael Hendry

Those who found the last epigram a bit morbid may wish to skip the first of this matched pair: “Posidippus, or Plato the Comic Poet” (A.P. 9.359): Ποίην τις βιότοιο τάμῃ τρίβον; εἰν ἀγορῇ μὲν     νείκεα καὶ χαλεπαὶ πρήξιες· ἐν … Continue reading →

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