# About Ritter's poetic language The hypothesis is that relatively little of poetic language characteristic for Ovid's epistles ([Heroides][1], [Tristia][2], [Ex Ponto][3]) is present in the Neo-Latin epistles by Ritter Vitezović. The hypothesis will be tested by examination of verse **clausulae** (verse endings): one, two, or three words at the end of verse. We want to see *how many clausulae from Ovid's epistles appear in Ritter Vitezović's texts*. Additionally, we will use the same procedure to compare **beginnings** of Ovid's and Ritter Vitezović's verses. # Results See [the list of reports][4]. # Replication of data and procedures Clone the [Github repository ritter-epistolae][5]. Install [BaseX][6], a freely available XML database (you can also try [other XML databases][7] which support XQuery and RESTXQ). Using XQuery scripts in the Github repository, create the databases, perform queries, display results. ## Creating the required XML databases Use [BaseX][8] and XQuery scripts from the ritter-epistolae repository to create the databases. See the [detailed procedure][9] for more information. Counts of verses for Ritter Vitezović and Ovid can be found as a page on the CroALa site: [vitezovic-versus][10]. ## Querying the databases Use BaseX and XQuery scripts to [execute queries][11]. ## Displaying results of queries Results will be displayed as HTML pages via [BaseX RESTXQ API][12]. [1]: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/raw/master/data/phi0959/phi002/phi0959.phi002.perseus-lat2.xml [2]: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/raw/master/data/phi0959/phi008/phi0959.phi008.perseus-lat2.xml [3]: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/raw/master/data/phi0959/phi009/phi0959.phi009.perseus-lat2.xml [4]: https://osf.io/ek6pt/wiki/Results/ [5]: https://github.com/nevenjovanovic/ritter-epistolae [6]: http://basex.org/ [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_database [8]: http://basex.org/ [9]: https://osf.io/ek6pt/wiki/Create%20XML%20databases/ [10]: http://croala.ffzg.unizg.hr/basex/vitezovic-versus [11]: https://osf.io/ek6pt/wiki/Execute%20XQueries/ [12]: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ