noooooo oh nononono. The Perseus text _does_ have directional quotes. BUT, looking at the Aeneid, they follow a crappy old text of Greenough. Greenough does that lovely thing where he puts in paragraphs for the reader...

That& #39;s all fine (arguably), except that it& #39;s routine to add a quote to the start of a paragraph if you& #39;re continuing in a quotation.

BUT THE PERSEUS TEXT REMOVED THE PARAGRAPH MARKERS

So now, if you just follow the quotation marks, the levels of quotation (already up to three deep in Book 2) go bananas

So anyway that& #39;s why I& #39;m https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤬" title="Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund"> sat here correcting https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤬" title="Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund">punctuation in the XML version of a https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤬" title="Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund"> 19th century edition of the Aeneid. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤬" title="Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Symbolen über dem Mund">

On the off chance that anyone hits this thread in the future - DO NOT use the XML files from http://perseus.tufts.edu"> http://perseus.tufts.edu ! They& #39;re not maintained. The & #39;real& #39; XML files are at https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit">https://github.com/PerseusDL...

In other news, I kinda have an eye twitch now. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😐" title="Neutrales Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Neutrales Gesicht">