Aristophanes’ Readers and Translators in 15th-Century Italy: The Latin Plutus of MS Matrit. Gr. 4697
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study will focus on an unedited and little-known Latin version of Aristophanes' Plutus, which is preserved in the manuscript Matrit. gr. 4697 at the National Library of Spain. It is a paper codex, which dates back to the last quarter of the 15th century and was copied by the Italian humanist Lodovico da Poppi. The Greek text of the Plutus is accompanied by an interlinear translation into Latin, almost unknown until now. This hitherto neglected codex is especially interesting because of the Latin version it contains, since it appears to be amongst the first ever made of Aristophanes' Plutus. In this chapter, I will examine and discuss the various translational strategies employed by Lodovico to move Aristophanes' 4th-century Greek text to a 15th-century Latin-reading community. The analysis ultimately sheds light on the history of the transmission of Aristophanes' text and the scholarly activities around during this period.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".