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Originally Posted by Patricia
I teach a fair amount of Plato and Aristotle and find online texts are a problem.When referring to Plato, it is essential to use Stephanus numbers, which will identify any sentence in his entire oeuvre. These appear as marginal numbers and letters in most print versions in both English and Greek. But the numbers simply don't appear in the online versions of Plato (except for the Perseus Project version). So I can't recommend them to students and don't use online versions myself.
(This is why I've never uploaded a Plato dialogue: without the Stephanus numbers it is useless to me. But with them it is irritating to general readers.)
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The same problem exists with Latin and Greek poetry, Patricia. One always refers, for example, to
Iliad, Book 8, line 204 and without the line numbers of the original a text is of very limited value.