Talk:Morgantina

Changes and questions

Comments:

• I decided to use Cite.php for references in this article because the Wikipedia:Footnote3 is deprecated. Even so, according to the guidelines I should have sought consensus here first before converting. Sorry for skipping this step, I hope the change is acceptable.
• The references with links to Perseus did not link to specific passages anymore, I fixed the links to do this again.
• I put in links to exact passages for more of the references to ancient sources.
• Removed all the double spaces.
• Removed wikilinks to non-existing articles, the constant red text is only distracting.
• The former footnote 8 referenced Livy 24.36.10, 24.38.3 and 24.39.10, but I reduced this to just 24.36.10 because the other passages add nothing: 24.38.3 states that the garrison of Murgantia was killed and 24.39.10 states that Hippocrates returned to Murgantia. 24.36.10 states that the Roman garrison of Murgantia was betrayed by the citizens themselves and taken over by the Carthaginians.
• Regarding the former footnote 9, Livy 26.21.17 contains the relevant information and a reference to 26.21.12 seems unnecessary.
• The former reference to Diodorus Siculus 34/35.2.3 is unclear to me, the only English translation of these books available online places the relevant passage at the very end of book 34, which seems to me like 34.2. I'm not sure what is in the reference to 35.2.3 because the translation doesn't have that book. Because the relevant passage at the end of book 34.2 contains the relevant passage I omitted the reference to 35.2.3.

Questions:

• The article states that Douketios was defeated at Nomai in 449 BCE. However, the translation of Diodorus Siculus 11.91 referenced in footnote five has a comment which says 451 BCE. The text of that source says that Douketios attacked Motyum in that year, and that he was defeated at Nomai in the next year. That would be 450 BCE, right? Do we agree that it should be changed to 450 BCE then?
• The reference to Naturalis Historia used Perseus as a source, but the version on Perseus somehow has very different numbering, compare Perseus and the Latin text on Lacus Curtius for example. The former is referenced by book 14, chapter 14, the latter is referenced by book 14 line (?) 35 in chapter (?) 4, without the line numbers restarting with every new chapter. Who is wrong? Anyway, I decidded to use the format of Perseus because that website is the only one with an English translation, even if the former footnote 12 referenced Naturalis Historia 14.35. AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 16:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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