Comment by duskwuff
2 years ago
> Not exactly sure why, maybe small corpus
That's probably most of the problem. The entire corpus of ancient Latin is on the order of 9-10M words. If you printed it at the same density as a typical English novel, it wouldn't even fill a bookcase.
Why would the corpus need to be limited to antique latin? The language was in use for much longer than antiquity. You've got everything from Thomas Aquinas to Isaac Newton to pad with.
Because they are almost different languages "modern" latin is quite different to "roman" latin.
Even roman latin changed during the millennium it was around though.