Lexundria: A Digital Library Of Antiquity

[First posted inward AWOL  xiii Dec 2014, updated vii Jan 2019]

Lexundria: H5N1 Digital Library of Antiquity
This site is nether construction, in addition to may move glitchy over the side yesteryear side several weeks. All texts should, however, proceed to move accessible. (September, 2018)
Lexundria is a digital library of classical antiquity. Although almost of the texts on this site tin give the axe move constitute elsewhere on the internet, this projection aims to brand them accessible inward a to a greater extent than research-friendly format. The Lexundria editions are therefore distinguished yesteryear the next features:
1. Standard reference numbers. Most classical texts convey a measure referencing system used yesteryear academics in addition to other authors (analogous to the poetry divisions of the Bible). These divisions are clearly marked inward the texts on this site, fifty-fifty when the corresponding impress edition does non incorporate them.
2. Pin-citation functionality. You tin give the axe easily hold off upwardly a passage at Lexundria using its pivot citation. Rather than browse through long blocks of text inward guild to discovery the passage you’re looking for, but motility into the measure citation inward the Lexundria search box. Lexundria volition automatically pinpoint the passage in addition to display it.
3. Parallel-editions mode. When Lexundria hosts to a greater extent than than 1 edition of a work, you lot volition run into a “compare” selection at the bottom of the version menu. This characteristic allows you lot to compare editions side-by-side, 1 passage at a time. For a gustatory modality of how this works, try reading Epicurus’s Kuriai Doxai inward comparing mode.
4. H5N1 comprehensive search engine. Lexundria’s full-text search engine makes it tardily to search for words in addition to phrases. To search the entire Lexundria library, but motility into your search damage inward the search box in addition to hitting submit. To restrain your search to a unmarried work, add together a backslash followed yesteryear the measure abbreviation for the work. (For example, “Antonius \Cic. Phil.” volition search for occurrences of “Antonius” alone inward Cicero’s Philippics.) To restrain your search to a unmarried edition, add together around other backslash followed yesteryear the Lexundria abbreviation for the edition. (Edition abbreviations tin give the axe move constitute on Lexundria’s tabular array of contents page for the piece of job you’re interested in.)







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