From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-01-22T09:55:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Longest Repeated Substring (#153)

On Jan 21, 2008 9:49 AM, Denis Hennessy <denis@hennessynet.com> wrote:
>
> On 21 Jan 2008, at 15:12, Todd Benson wrote:
>
> > 2008/1/18 yermej <yermej@gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> For The Illiad, I got:
> >> ' who are
> >> perishing and coming to a bad end. We will, however, since you so
> >> bid us, refrain from actual fighting, but we will make serviceable
> >> suggestions to the Argives' (168 characters)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Using Eric's code, for "The Iliad" downloaded from the Gutenberg
> > project...
> >
> > "On this the rest of the Acheans with one voice were for respecting
> > the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so
> > Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. " (193
> > characters)
> >
> > Todd
> >
> In my copy of the Illiad (there's a phrase I never thought I'd use!),
> those two sections differ in whitespace / linebreaks:
>
>    On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for
> respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not
> so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.
> "Old man," said he, "let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor
> yet coming hereafter.
>
> and
>
>    "On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting
> the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so
> Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. So
> he went back in anger, and Apollo, who loved him dearly, heard his
> prayer.
>
> Did you get yours from http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/homer-illiad.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/iliad10.txt

It goes to show that any text on the "web" is spurious :-)

Side note and totally off topic...  why do people like to use two el's
in "The Iliad"?

>   ?
>
> /dh

Todd