The Latin Library

Plain-text Latin from Ennius to the Renaissance, no login, no apparatus.

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What it actually is

A deliberately bare archive of Latin texts as unadorned HTML — nothing but the Latin. That is its virtue and its limit: it is the fastest place to find a passage and the worst place to read one you cannot already handle. Pair it with Logeion in another tab.

What it covers

  • Reading

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