Review: <i>Ausonius Grammaticus: The Christening of Philology in the Late Roman West</i>, by Lionel Yaceczko
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Abstract
Book Review| August 01 2023 Review: Ausonius Grammaticus: The Christening of Philology in the Late Roman West, by Lionel Yaceczko Lionel Yaceczko, Ausonius Grammaticus: The Christening of Philology in the Late Roman West. Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics 78. Piscataway: Gorgias, 2021. 254 pp. ISBN: 9781463242800 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781463242817 (ebook). $114.95. Scott McGill Scott McGill Rice University smcgill@rice.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar smcgill@rice.edu Studies in Late Antiquity (2023) 7 (3): 477–480. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2023.7.3.477 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Scott McGill; Review: Ausonius Grammaticus: The Christening of Philology in the Late Roman West, by Lionel Yaceczko. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 August 2023; 7 (3): 477–480. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2023.7.3.477 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search Lionel Yaceczko has written a curious book about a curious author. His subject is the fourth-century CE Ausonius, who, in a life of quicksilver social mobility, rose from his position as a teacher in Bordeaux to become an imperial tutor and hold significant political offices. Ausonius was also a prolific poet of dizzying variety and an important source on social history, particularly because of his many prose and verse letters, dedicatory and otherwise. All of this makes him a rich subject for the biographer, literary critic, and historian alike. Yaceczko operates primarily as the first of these but also takes on the other roles to produce a life of Ausonius, organized chronologically and thematically. The result is a book of substantial interest and insight, but one that does not fully coalesce into a coherent whole. The book opens with a simple question: “Who was the poet Ausonius?” (1). In his... You do not currently have access to this content.
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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 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.023 |
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".