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The Library of Latin Texts (LLT) is a subscription-based database of Latin texts, from antiquity up to the present day.Started in 1991 as the Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT), it continues to be developed by the Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’ and is hosted by Brepols Publishers.
The Latin Library is a website that collects public domain Latin texts. [1] It is run by William L. Carey, adjunct professor of Latin and Roman Law at George Mason University. [2] The texts have been drawn from different sources, are not intended for research purposes nor as substitutes for critical editions, and may contain errors. [3]
Corpus Corporum (Lat. "the collection of collections") or in full, Corpus Córporum: repositorium operum latinorum apud universitatem Turicensem, is a digital Medieval Latin library developed by the University of Zurich, Institute for Greek and Latin Philology.
Cato wrote the first Latin history of Rome and of other Italian cities. [5] He was the first Roman statesman to put his political speeches in writing as a means of influencing public opinion. [citation needed] Early Latin literature ended with Gaius Lucilius, who created a new kind of poetry in his 30 books of Satires (2nd century BC). He wrote ...
The majority of classical texts referred to by other classical authors are lost, and there is hope that the continuing work on the library scrolls will discover some of these. For example, as many as 44 works discovered were written by the 1st-century BC Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus , a resident of Herculaneum, who possibly formed ...
Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering vernacular usage or dialects of the Latin language spoken from earliest times in Italy until the latest dialects of the Western Roman Empire, diverging significantly after 500 AD, evolved into the early Romance languages, whose writings began to appear about the 9th century.
The CSEL publishes Latin writings of Christian authors from the time of the late 2nd century until the beginning of the 8th century (Bede the Venerable, †735).Each text is edited on the basis of all (or the most important of all) the extant manuscripts according to modern editorial techniques, in order to produce a text as close as possible to the original.
Furthermore, the library has been cooperating internationally with Leipzig University, with several projects emerging of it, such as the Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank, for classical philology, Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS) which focuses on fragmentary texts, [14] the Open Greek and Latin Project and Open Persian. [1]