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Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
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A single-feed Hacker News post highlights a web-based reader that lets users click any word across 1,060 Greek and Latin texts to see its lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry.
For engineers building language-learning or text-analysis tools, this is a working example of integrating morphological parsing and dictionary lookup at scale across a large corpus. The coverage, 140 authors spanning epic, philosophy, oratory, science, and more, suggests a non-trivial data pipeline behind the interface. Because only one feed carries it, there is no independent corroboration of implementation details or performance.
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The tool covers 1,060 works, 293 Latin and 767 Greek, by 140 authors, organized by genre.
Clicking any word returns its lemma, morphology, and a full dictionary entry from Lewis & Short (Latin) or Liddell-Scott-Jones (Greek).
Only one feed surfaced this item, so technical architecture and licensing details are not available from the provided material.
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