Frequently Asked Questions
1. Honoraria for the members of the TLL Fellowship selection
committee administered by the Society for Classical Studies:
The selection committee has five voting members, who each receive $400 for a totalof $2,000 per year. This was at the direction of the NEH, who also stipulated thatone member should come from outside the SCS. The American Council ofLearned Societies (ACLS) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of its memberorganizations who have lost NEH funds, saying that proper process was notfollowed. The Friends believe that in maintaining the Fellowship, every NEH ruleshould be observed until all legal remedies have been exhausted.
The Thesaurus linguae Latinae is the most authoritative dictionary of ancient Latin in the world. It is the only lexicon to be based upon every single surviving Latin text from the earliest times down to AD 600. It is overseen and published by the International Thesaurus Committee, which comprises delegates from 38 learned societies representing every continent except Antarctica.
Three issues are published every two years. The project is 95% funded by a grant from the German government, supplemented by contributions from the member societies according to their means. Some countries, including the USA, also send an annual Fellow to be trained in lexicography and compose articles for the dictionary. Short-term summer fellows, normally graduate students, receive highly concentrated training over a period of 8–10 weeks, during which they are able to compose two or three short articles for the project.
