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Record W2605563703 · doi:10.3138/mous.14.1-05

Juvenal’s <i>Appia de numero Lamiarum</i> (6.385–397)

2017· article· en· W2605563703 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Bernard Kavanagh

Bibliographic record

VenueMouseion Journal of the Classical Association of Canada · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClassical Antiquity Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWifeDaughterSisterReading (process)ArtLiteraturePhilosophyGenealogyTheologyHistoryLawPolitical scienceLinguistics

Abstract

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Among the many women discussed in Juvenal’s Satire 6, the satirist’s tirade against the institution of marriage, one is a wife named Appia (6. 385–397), who is said to belong to the family of the (Aelii) Lamiae. Scholars have been divided as to who specifically the woman was, some believing that she was a member of the patrician Claudii of old, others that the reading Appia is corrupt. This article, while accepting the reading in the text as Appia, but not that she is not related to the ancient gens Claudia, argues instead that Juvenal’s Appia de numero Lamiarum was the daughter of L. Ceionius Commodus II, whose mother’s name was Appia Severa, and his wife *Plautia, who was the daughter of L. Aelius Lamia. Since Hadrian’s heir apparent, L. Aelius Caesar, was the son of that same couple, Appia must have been his sister, a fact not previously known.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.073
Threshold uncertainty score0.145

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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