Re: Hrabanus Maurus, "De inventione linguarum."

["Peter T. Daniels"]

mb wrote:
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > Migne undertook the
> > project strictly as a money-making venture; see the small book called
> > *God's Plagiarist* (I don't remember the author) published by Chicago
> > about 20 years ago. Unfortunately it doesn't include a list of the
> > contents of the several hundred volumes he produced and sold by
> > subscription to parish priests all over France (and perhaps elsewhere
> > in the world as well).
>
> There is no reason why the money-making venture shouldn't be
> re-inflicted on a humanity  thirsting for more of the same. I think
> that the Patristica Graeca was available on CD-ROM already in the
> mid-Nineties. For a very respectable amount (an Archimandrite I know
> couldn't afford it and got the money from the Patriarch or something).
> The other indigestible is probably also out.

It would take a lot more than one CD ... there are hundreds of large
volumes with tiny type. Several DVDs, probably.