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Record W2754681929 · doi:10.1017/s1750270517000082

READING DIODORUS 18.9.3 AND ΜΕΤΑ ΠΟΛΛΗΣ ΗΣΥΧΙΑΣ

2017· article· en· W2754681929 on OpenAlexaff
John Patrick Walsh

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Cambridge Classical Journal · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClassical Antiquity Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEpitomeNarrativePhraseReading (process)Meaning (existential)LinguisticsHistoryEvent (particle physics)LiteratureRest (music)PhilosophyEpistemologyArtMedicine

Abstract

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Because Diodorus’ Bibliothēkē was written as an epitome, it has been common practice to conduct a compartmentalised study of his work. One of the results of this overly simplified approach has been to segregate passages from the rest of the narrative, such as 18.9.3 where Leosthenes recruits mercenaries for the Lamian War. As a result, the intended meaning of the crucial phrase μετὰ πολλῆς ἡσυχίας has been missed and valuable insight into the event is overlooked. This paper argues that μετὰ πολλῆς ἡσυχίας in Diod. 18.9.3 means ‘without great urgency’, not, as some have interpreted it, as ‘very quietly’ or ‘secretly’.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.681
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0080.003
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.064
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread0.293 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

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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