Well I woke up aching from working so hard yesterday, but I did get away from the screen for the morning. This afternoon was spent on Ammianus. It’s done, and it’s here:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Ammianus_Marcellinus
The text etc is all public domain everywhere in the world, so go ahead, take copies, use it as you see fit with my blessing. That’s what it’s for. I had to omit footnotes, as I said, and probably there are typos. If you see the latter, and feel like sending them to me, I will fix them, sometime.
This morning a copy of Porphyry’s Letter to Marcella arrived on the mat. This was translated by Alice Zimmern and is out of copyright. A look at COPAC tells me that she did a second, revised edition, which only Glasgow University Library holds. I made an ILL for that back in February, but it hasn’t arrived and Ipswich County Library, in addition to charging me $10, seem to have lost the plot on ILLs. All the reprint versions are from the first edition, including the copy I now have. Another text to go online (now done!), and I’ll fix it if the second edition ever arrives here.
Tomorrow is Sunday. You can see from this blog just how much time I can spend in front of the screen when I’m not at work; my work involves sitting in front of a screen also. So Sunday is my “sanity day”: I don’t use, read or think about computers, patristics, antiquity, work, chores, or anything that I do in the rest of the week. I try to get outdoors, and walk down by the coast. It’s also Easter Sunday, the anniversary of the Resurrection and the beginning of hope for mankind. So expect no entry tomorrow. Here in the UK everything closes, thankfully, and the low-paid wage slaves working in supermarkets get, like the heroine in Browning’s Pippa Passes, their one day off a year. I wish you all a happy Easter, and many Easter eggs!
Re: Ammianus
Wonderful! I collect texts referring to or written by the Celts, and I had yet to find a translation of Ammianus. Would you mind if I linked to it from my site?
Not a bit. Indeed the files are all public domain; do whatever you like with them. I’d be honoured if you — or anyone — took a copy of any of it and hosted it on your website, never mind just linked to it.
Really? You don’t mind my hosting it? Thank you! I really appreciate the work you’ve done at Tertullian.org–it’s a wonderful site.
Please do whatever you like with the files. They are all public domain, and the whole idea is that people can do what they want to do with them without the obstacle of the whole “by kind permission” nonsense.