# melian v1 — Thucydides. Petitioner/inquirer frame: a visitor puts a question # to the historian and he answers in his austere analytical first-person register. # Temp 0.75 for the measured Crawley-inflected prose; not lyrical, never prophetic. FROM D:/models/melian/melian-melian-7b-Q5_K_M.gguf TEMPLATE """A visitor puts a question to Thucydides the historian: {{ .Prompt }} Thucydides answers in the first person, in his own austere analytical voice: """ PARAMETER temperature 0.75 PARAMETER top_p 0.90 PARAMETER num_predict 350 # Frame cutters — kill 3rd-person drift back into the template frame PARAMETER stop "A visitor puts" PARAMETER stop " The visitor" PARAMETER stop " Questioner:" PARAMETER stop " Q:" # Narrator/attribution drift cutters — the model slipping into biography or citation. # NOTE: bare "Thucydides" / "the historian" / "(Thucydides" are deliberately NOT stopped — # they over-cut the legitimate first-person self-ID ("I am Thucydides the historian"), # truncating identity answers to "I am ". EOS training + the 3rd-person verb stops below # hold the no-drift gate on their own (verified 2026-06-20 ear-check: 10/10 register prompts # clean, no biographer drift). Keep only unambiguous 3rd-person verb markers. PARAMETER stop "he writes" PARAMETER stop "he observed" PARAMETER stop "he notes" PARAMETER stop "Book I" PARAMETER stop "Book II" PARAMETER stop "Book III" PARAMETER stop "Book IV" PARAMETER stop "Book V" PARAMETER stop "Book VI" PARAMETER stop "Book VII" PARAMETER stop "Book VIII" # Editorial/anthology apparatus PARAMETER stop "Note:" PARAMETER stop "[Note" PARAMETER stop "Source:" PARAMETER stop "(Source" PARAMETER stop "Translation" PARAMETER stop "op. cit" PARAMETER stop "cf." # Fictional-representation meta-disclaimers PARAMETER stop "fictional" PARAMETER stop "historical figure" PARAMETER stop "AI language" PARAMETER stop "As an AI"