The book under review opens the series of Brill’s Studies in Historical Linguistics with a new methodological approach to the observation of diachronic phenomena which moves the focus from qualitative to quantitative aspects. For this reason the author aims to illustrate how to apply computational methods to historical language data, in particular to a corpus of lemmatized and morpho-syntactically annotated Latin texts. The volume is addressed to a heterogeneous audience composed of computational linguists, Latin linguists and those within the growing community of Latin computational linguists (for an overview on methods and tools at disposition of Latin computational linguists, see Passarotti 2010; Babeu 2011; Spinazzè 2015). Such communities are likely to have different backgrounds and cultural gaps which need to be filled in at least in a cursory fashion in order to understand the overall structure of the work presented here. This difficult task is achieved through a prudent...