Colometry
Under colorimetric means the separation of a set into a plurality of clauses ( Kola ). The process goes back to ancient Greece.
Colometry and stitchometry
In colorimetry and stichometry is different procedures to divide texts into smaller units. While the stitchometry is based only on the length of the verse (division of the text into dimension lines, normal lines ), the colometry determines rhetorical or semantic units (division of the text into meaningful lines).
Colometry in school
In school Latin lessons , the colometric spelling is used to better understand and translate sentences. A line is left blank after each comma, period, colon, etc. In some cases, this is extended to the indentation method for complex sentence structures, in which each sub-clause is indented depending on how it depends on the preceding one, e.g. a main clause is not indented, a subordinate clause is indented one level, a subordinate clause is indented another level , but not for a sentence that depends on the next higher level of detail (see examples below).
Examples
Salve, amnis laudate agris, laudate colonis, dignata imperio debent cui moenia Belgae, amnis odorifero iuga vitea consite Baccho, consite gramineas, amnis viridissime, ripas! ( Decimus Magnus Ausonius : Mosella , 23–26)
In colometric spelling , this Latin sentence would look like this:
- Volley,
- amnis laudate agris,
- laudate colonis,
- dignata imperio debent cui moenia Belgae,
- amnis odorifero iuga vitea consite Baccho,
- consite gramineas,
- amnis viridissime,
- ripas!
This structure makes the sentence clearer and easier to translate.
Itaque lex ipsa naturae, quae utilitatem hominum conservat et continet, decernit profecto, ut ab homine inerti atque inutili ad sapientem, bonum, fortemque virum transferantur res ad vivendum necessariae; qui si occiderit, multum de communi utilitate detraxerit: modo hoc ita faciat, ut, ne ipse de se bene existimans seseque diligens, hanc causam habeat ad iniuriam. ( Cicero , De officiis , 3.31)
In the indentation method , this sentence would look like this:
- Itaque lex ipsa naturae,
- quae utilitatem hominum conservat et continet,
- decernit profecto,
- ut ab homine inerti atque inutili ad sapientem, bonum, fortemque virum transferantur res ad vivendum necessariae;
- qui si occiderit, multum de communi utilitate detraxerit:
- modo hoc ita faciat,
- ut,
- ne ipse de se bene existimans seseque diligens,
- hanc causam habeat ad iniuriam.
- ut,
literature
- Friedrich Gustav Lang: Customized writing. On engraving in ancient literature . In: Novum Testamentum , Vol. 41, Fasc. 1, 1999, pp. 40-57. (For colometry : p. 41)
- Friedrich Gustav Lang: Even in the letter to the Ephesians: Stichometric composition analysis . In: Novum Testamentum , Vol. 46, Fasc. 2, 2004, pp. 143-163. (Lang defines colometry on p. 149 as: "Division of a text into lines of meaning".)
- Adam Pawłowski: Prolegomena to the History of Corpus and Quantitative Linguistics. Greek Antiquity. In: Glottotheory 1, 2008, pp. 48-54. (In this article, the author mainly deals with stitchometry and colometry as the forerunners of quantitative linguistics .)
- Ton Veerkamp : The Gospel according to John in a colometric translation. Texts & contexts, exegetical journal. No. 106/107 28th volume 2–3 / 2005. Published by the Association for Political and Theological Education LEHRHAUS e. V., Dortmund, ISSN 0170-1096
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 231). 8th, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-23108-5 , keyword: "Colometry".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quote: “The criterion of stichometric text division into smaller units was formal: equal numbers of metrical feet in a verse. [...] In many texts a division into rhetoric or semantic units was applied. This kind of segmentation, together with the numbers introduced into the text, is called colometry . "Quotation in Pawłowski (2008, p. 52)
Web links
http://www.stichometrie.de/text.html ("text examples")