Papers by Mikhail Shumilin
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Philologia Classica
In her critical edition of the Passio Nazarii, Celsi, Geruasii et Protasii (BHL 6043), a text dat... more In her critical edition of the Passio Nazarii, Celsi, Geruasii et Protasii (BHL 6043), a text dated to the 6th or 7th century AD and probably translated from Greek, Cecile Lanéry introduces several conjectural changes aimed at language standardization. The author of the present article takes issue with several of her conjectures and suggests that in each case the transmitted text actually stands criticism and should probably be left unchanged. At 2.3, the transmitted alapas is not to be changed to alapis with percutio, since percutio with both the accusative of direct object and the accusative of a word meaning “blow” is several times reliably attested in the Vetus Latina, and in one of these instances the word used for “blow” is actually alapa. At 5.1, et in the expression uocans Nazarium et dixit ei should not be deleted, since there are numerous parallels for this syntax in Late Latin. At 8.2, in carcerem is to be retained as a possible way to describe position in Late Latin, whe...
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Poems without Poets, 2021
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Shagi / Steps, 2017
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Mnemosyne, 2021
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Shagi / Steps, 2021
We present a new algorithm for stylometric identification of authors of Latin prose texts based o... more We present a new algorithm for stylometric identification of authors of Latin prose texts based on Burrows' Delta and the Dirichlet distribution. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, we present a case study of fragments of texts by 36 authors and show that our method performs on par with Random Forest, a powerful general-purpose classification algorithm. The advantages of our method are that it is very simple to implement, much quicker to train and do inference with, and that it is more interpretable since it is a model-based algorithm: precision of the fitted Dirichlet distributions directly corresponds to the stylistic homogeneity of the texts by different authors.
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Lines 27.14–17 of the text published by Justin Stover as Apuleius, De Platone 3 are printed by hi... more Lines 27.14–17 of the text published by Justin Stover as Apuleius, De Platone 3 are printed by him as follows: quorum [sc. animalium] inmortalia esse quae in caelo sint; idcirco illa ordine cieri et eodem semper modo et alioquin esse prudentia. Of them [sc. animals], the immortal animals are those which are in the heavens; thus they move in an ordered pattern in the same way, and in addition, they are rational. (trans. J. Stover)
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Shagi / Steps, 2020
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Shagi / Steps, 2015
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Humanistica Lovaniensia, 2018
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The Classical Quarterly, 2019
Lines 3.20–2 of the text published by Justin Stover as Apuleius’De Platone3 are printed by him as... more Lines 3.20–2 of the text published by Justin Stover as Apuleius’De Platone3 are printed by him as follows:improbat deinde eos qui negantis homines in seruitute habeant aut qui omnino eiusdem ciuitatis nationem belli iure diruant aut qui hostium spolia deorum aedibus adfigant.He [sc. Plato] then rebukes those who hold people in slavery against their will, or else who destroy utterly the people of that same city by right of war, or who hang the spoils of enemies on the shrines of the gods. (transl. J. Stover)
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Philologus, 2019
But, as F. H. Colson notes following G. L. Spalding, “ratio comparandi ... is not obvious”. Clear... more But, as F. H. Colson notes following G. L. Spalding, “ratio comparandi ... is not obvious”. Clearly, the idea must be that for the more advanced students aemulatio is preferable, while for the beginners imitatio is a more suitable tool. The word iucundior (together with facilior) would have been appropriate to express this opposition, but quam also requires some comparative, and so iucundior has to be connected with condiscipulorum quam praeceptoris, unless we assume some omission or ellipsis: i. e., the text appears to say, “beginners find imitation of their fellows more agreeable than imitation of their masters”, not “beginners find imitationmore agreeable than emulation (rivalry)”.
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Enthymema, Jul 3, 2014
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
Russian Abstract: При изучении политической составляющей текстов классических римских поэтов след... more Russian Abstract: При изучении политической составляющей текстов классических римских поэтов следует сместить внимание с упрощенных вопросов о политическом лагере, к которому принадлежит писатель, на содержащиеся в художественных произведениях описания устройства мира во всей их полноте, со сложными и многообразными механизмами функционирования "политического". В препринте предлагается проделать такую работу, двигаясь от разбора остающихся недообъясненными и спорными мелких деталей текстов Вергилия о Овидия к углубленному пониманию того, как работает политика в их великих поэмах. В первой главе исходной точкой разбора становится современное состояние дискуссий о XII книге "Энеиды", одной из центральных в поэме для интерпретации того, как поэт относится к Энею и основанному им государству. Во второй главе обсуждается смысл спорадических отсылок к римской политике в I книге "Метаморфоз" Овидия и за на первый взгляд случайными обмолвками предлагается видеть продуманную поэтом систему.English Abstract: In the study of the political component of the classical Roman poets texts should move the focus from simplistic questions about the political camp, which belongs to the writer on the works of art contained in the device description of the world in its entirety, with a complex and diverse mechanisms of functioning of the "political". The preprint is proposed to do this kind of work, moving from the analysis of the remaining nedoobyasnennymi and controversial small parts of the texts of Virgil Ovid to a deeper understanding of how the policy of the great poems. In the first chapter of the initial analysis point it becomes the current state of discussions on the XII book "Aeneid", one of the central in the poem to interpret how the poet refers to Aeneas, and he founded the state. The second chapter discusses the meaning of sporadic references to the Roman policy in the I book "Metamorphoses" of Ovid and seemingly accidental slip of the tongue are invited to see the thoughtful poet system.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
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The Classical Quarterly, 2021
The ‘New Apuleius’ is a set of Latin summaries of Plato's works first published in 2016 by Ju... more The ‘New Apuleius’ is a set of Latin summaries of Plato's works first published in 2016 by Justin Stover, who attributed it to Apuleius. The present article attempts to assess two key aspects of Stover's argument, viz. his reconstruction of the manuscript transmission of the new text and his use of computer-assisted stylometric techniques. The authors suggest that both strands of his argument are inconclusive. First, it is argued that the transposition of gatherings in the archetype of the Apuleian philosophica as envisaged by Stover is highly unrealistic. Second, replications of Stover's stylometric experiments show that their results are highly dependent on the particular algorithm settings and on the composition of the corpus. It is further shown that Stover's choice of highly specialized stylometric techniques is suboptimal, because popular generalist methods for statistical data analysis are demonstrably more successful in correctly identifying authors of Latin ...
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Aristeas 17, 177-184, 2018
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'New Apuleius' 27.15 ordine cieri Stover: ordinem queri cod.: ordine moueri Shumilin
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