Site Searches Note
Searching by Clavis Patrum number. A facility is steadily being added to the site for searching for a work by its "Clavis Patrum" number. Entering a four digit number in the search box should enable a search for the work with that particular number (0001 - 9999). Doing a phrase search for, say, "CPL 0123" or "CPG 4330" will narrow down the search to the Latin or Greek Clavis. The authors for whom Clavis numbers are currently entered are Ambrose, Amphilochius of Iconium, Apophthegmata Patrum, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil of Caesarea, Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian, Cyril of Alexandria, Ennodius, Eusebius of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Thaumaturgus, Hilary of Poitiers, Hippolytus, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Leo I, Marcellus of Ancyra, Minucius Felix, Origen, Rufinus, Salvian, Sulpicius Severus, Synesius of Cyrene, Tertullian, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret, Turribius. The list will grow and updates will be given here.
Searches for the English and Latin words are straightforward.
For Greek words searches can be entered either in unicode Greek text (in which case they must be complete with appropriate accents and breathings) or in an English transliteration of the Greek as outlined below.
Greek words have been transliterated to English for search purposes without any accents, breathings etc. It is hoped that this makes for greater ease of searching for those who may not be familiar with all the complexities of Greek accents and breathings. The pattern of transliteration is given a little further down the page.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INCLUDE ACCENTS OR BREATHINGS IN YOUR SEARCH WORDS! FOR THIS PURPOSE IT WILL HINDER RATHER THAN HELP. SO THERE IS NEVER AN "H" AT THE BEGINNING OF WORDS.
WHERE AN IOTA SUBSCRIPT IS INCLUDED IN A WORD THEN PLEASE ADD AN "i" after the vowel in searches.
e.g. λόγῳ = logwi
IF DOING A SEARCH IN GREEK TEXT THEN DO NOT INCLUDE
’
WHERE IT INDICATES A CHARACTER HAS BEEN OMITTED.
So, if searching for μεθ’ ἡμῶν enter μεθ ἡμῶν
IF YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR A PHRASE IT MAY SOMETIMES BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN FINDING PAGES IF YOU USE A + SIGN BETWEEN THE WORDS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR RATHER THAN WRAPPING THE SEARCH PHRASE IN "QUOTES". (This is partly because there will sometimes be note numbers in the midst of phrases.)
IT IS POSSIBLE TO DO "WILDCARD" SEARCHES WHICH MAY BE VERY USEFUL WHEN LOOKING FOR ALL FORMS OF, SAY, A GREEK NOUN. So anthrwp* will find all instances of forms of ἄνθρωπος. It is also possible to put the wildcard * at the beginning of a word - though not in the middle. So it is possible to use a search such as *noia* to look for all instances of words that have νοια in the middle.
A search from one of the main text pages, or the homepage will give results on a special page from which it is possible to carry out slightly more sophisticated searches.
SCHEME OF GREEK TO ENGLISH LETTER TRANSLITERATION
Alpha (ά / Α) = a or A
Beta (β / Β) - b or B
Gamma (γ / Γ) = g or G
Delta (δ / Δ) = d or D
Episilon (ε / Ε) = e or E
Zeta (ζ / Ζ) = z or Z
Eta (η / Η)= h or H
Theta (θ / Θ) = th or Th
Iota (ι / Ι) = i or I
Kappa (κ / Κ) = k or K
Lambda (λ / Λ) = l o L
Mu (μ / Μ)= m or M
Nu (ν / Ν) = n or N
Xi (ξ / Ξ)= x or X
Omicron (ο / Ο) = o or O
Pi (π / Π) = p or P
Rho (ρ / Ρ)= r or R
Sigma (σ, ς /Σ)= s or S
Tau (τ / Τ)= t or T
Upsilon (υ / Υ)= u or U
Phi (φ / Φ)= ph or Ph
Chi (χ / Χ)= ch or Ch
Psi (ψ / Ψ)= ps or Ps
Omega (ω / Ω)= w or W
This scheme will sometimes result in slightly strange combinations of "Thetas, Phis and Chis" with Etas where an "h" might stand both for the "h" in Theta etc. and an Eta in the next letter. Nevertheless I hope that this scheme is reasonably satisfactory.
Sometimes you will find EN1, GN1, LN1 etc. embedded in items of text found by the search engine. This indicates that the text which follows is in English Note 1, Greek Note 1, Latin Note 1 etc on the referenced page. This should help you to locate it in the text.