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Latin & Ancient Greek, from the first line

Learn to read the classics one word at a time

For complete beginners, students and returning readers. Six short lessons teach you how the language works. Then you read real Vergil, Catullus and Homer with every word’s dictionary form, parsing and meaning a tap away.

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Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris

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  1. 1Learn how it worksSounds and letters, how endings do the work of word order, cases, verbs and agreement.6 lessons · 90 minutes · first one free
  2. 2Read real linesOpen a text and tap any word for its dictionary form, its parsing and what it does in that line.5 texts · 3910 lines

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Vergil
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Liber Primus
Aeneid

The whole of Book 1: Juno's storm, the landing in Libya, Jupiter's prophecy of Rome, and Aeneas' welcome at Dido's Carthage.

756 lines
Catullus
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I, II, III, V & VIII
Carmina

The dedication to Cornelius Nepos, Lesbia's sparrow and its death, 'Let us live, my Lesbia', and Catullus telling himself to stand firm.

74 lines
Homer
Greek
Book 1.1–62
Ὀδύσσεια

The invocation of the Muse, then the council of the gods: Zeus on Aegisthus, and Athena's plea for Odysseus, held captive by Calypso.

62 lines
Ovid
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Liber Primus
Ars Amatoria

The whole of Book 1: where to find a girl in Augustan Rome, the rape of the Sabines, Ariadne and Bacchus, and how to win her over.

772 lines
Cicero
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Oratio Prima
In Catilinam I

Cicero's passionate first oration against the conspirator Catiline, delivered to the Senate.

337 lines