CLASSICAL STUDIES

Comprehensive coverage of classical Latin with entries for approximately 40,000 words, based on a collection of over one million quotations that illustrate the meaning and use of Latin words from the earliest known instance.

Searchable online dictionary for Greek and Latin.
Go to the Perseus Quickstart Guide for more information on how to use Perseus for translating Greek and Latin words. (The Greek dictionary used is the 1940 edition of the Liddell-Scott lexicon below).

Used by every student of ancient Greek in the English-speaking world, this dictionary covers every surviving ancient Greek author and text discovered up to 1940, from the Pre-Classical Greek of Homer and Hesiod to Classical Greek to the Hellenistic Period, including the Greek Old and New Testaments.


The 1996 Supplement adds to the dictionary words and forms from papyri and inscriptions discovered between 1940 and the 1990s, as well as a host of other revisions, updatings, and corrections to the main dictionary.