LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
Academia

The Academy

The ancient world as the great Victorian dictionaries described it: thirty-four thousand articles on gods and heroes, the army, the city and daily life, gathered here into themes. Every Latin word in them can be read on hover.

The Roman Forum, engraved in the style of a nineteenth-century plate
The Forum in the age of Augustus
Dī deaequeThe gods · 18 articles

Jupiter, Juno and Minerva on the Capitol, the household Lares and Penates, and the many gods of Rome and Greece.

Rēs mīlitārisThe army · 11 articles

The legion, its camp and standards, armour and weapons, and the triumph that crowned a victory.

UrbsThe city · 13 articles

Rome and its buildings: forum and temple, circus and amphitheatre, baths, bridges and aqueducts.

Vīta cotīdiānaDaily life · 15 articles

Dress, the house, dinner, the baths, marriage and funerals, slaves, names and the calendar.

ScrīptōrēsWriters · 9 articles

The lives of the authors you read: Cicero, Caesar, Livy, Tacitus, Catullus, Plautus and others.

ImperātōrēsEmperors · 12 articles

From Augustus to Constantine: the men who ruled the Roman world, as the ancient sources tell it.

Grammatica

Latin grammar, section by section

Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar, the standard reference since 1903, in 642 sections from the alphabet to the scansion of verse.

  1. Words and Forms31 chapters
  2. Syntax14 chapters
  3. Prosody6 chapters
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Geōgraphia

Places of the ancient world

Ten thousand cities, provinces, rivers and peoples, from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.