# The History of the Loves of Antiochus and Stratonice: in which are interspers'd some accounts relating to Greece and Syria. By Mr. Theobald

**Slug:** `antiochus_and_stratonice_1717`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for Jonas Browne, 1717 (per ESTC). FIRST edition (prose romance). Bonus item.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-of-the-loves_theobald-mr-lewis_1717` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-of-the-loves_theobald-mr-lewis_1717
  - catalogue title: The history of the loves of Antiochus and Stratonice: in which are interspers'd some accounts relating to Greece and Syria. By Mr. Theobald.  1717
  - date field: 1717; images/frames: 317; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313513-54', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-of-the-loves_theobald-mr-lewis_1717_djvu.txt`
  - note: 317 frames

## Cleaned text(s)
- `antiochus_and_stratonice_1717.clean.txt` - c. 64,000 words of prose; 64,027 words; 98% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete.

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).