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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/RICH-2K/Recommended editions

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Recommended Editions are editions of texts referenced in the articles of the Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary. These texts fall under two categories:

  • Primary sources, i.e. the original Latin and Greek texts.
  • Secondary sources, i.e. texts used to understand the primary sources.

The sections about requirements and selection criteria provide information about how these editions are to be selected.

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The following list contains example references, mainly from the articles of RICH-1849, followed, where available, by citations with links to "recommended" online editions. This is a work in progress.

Requirements

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All recommended editions should be freely available. This means, that access is both unrestricted and for free. This usually entails that these texts are in the public domain or licensed under one of the Creative Commons-licenses. The point of this is to enable to provide references to Latin and Greek passages (and other cited texts) which lead to freely accessible online editions of these texts. No amount of money must be charged to access them, and no login-data be necessary in order to access these texts. The user should also be able to download these texts.

Recommended editions should be fully digital editions, that is, the text has been transcribed instead of pages merely having been scanned and made available as images. Where free editions of such digital texts are unavailable, scanned books can be used as well, however.

Selection criteria for primary resources

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Texts are selected from the following sources and in the following order (e.g. Perseus Digital Library is preferred, where available):

  1. Perseus Digital Library: Editions of Latin and Greek texts available at the Perseus Digital Library should be chosen, if these are either in the public domain or shared using a Creative Commmons-license. Perseus provides mostly "canonical" texts.
  2. Open Greek & Latin and the Scaife Viewer: Where Perseus does not offer an author or specific text, this site is next in line.
  3. Online editions which meet the above requirements and allow links to a specific page (or even passage) of the text in question. Web-sites providing such a functionality are, for example: Archive.org, Gallica.
  4. Online editions, which meet the above requirements but do not allow links to a specific page. These editions should be a last resort, however.
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