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OverviewA powerful online tool designed to help students read Greek and Latin texts in the original language by providing them with all the information required to actively construe a text at the click of a mouse.
Content• 8 texts
– 4 Greek– 4 Latin
• Study tools– Dictionary definition– Parser– Basic commentary– Advanced commentary– Translation– Background material on grammar and context
Texts Included• Latin
- Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche- Cicero: Catilinarians I-II- Ovid: Heroides- Virgil: Aeneid Book IX
• Greek- Euripides: Medea- Lysias: Selected Speeches- Plato: Ion- Sophocles: Antigone
Key Points• Innovative interface• Key texts• Unique functionality• Versatile study support resource• Faculty endorsement• Dynamic content set• Subsets
Lectrix home page
Quick links to About Lectrix, The Texts
and Help notes
Links to FAQs, suggestions for use, Subscriber Services,
dictionary entries and subscribed texts
Information relating to Lectrix and all available
texts
Text overview page
Accessing one of the subscribed texts returns a
page listing all the sub-divided content, if appropriate to that
text
Lectrix interface
Clicking on a subheading from one of the text pages
returns the Lectrix tool Four panes are available: the passage in the native language, the basic
commentary, dictionary information and a grammatical parser
Lectrix windows
Any of the windows may be closed by clicking on the red cross in the top right hand corner, and they may also be moved around the screen. Windows can also be stacked and resized.
Scroll through the sections of the text …
Advanced commentary
To open the corresponding advanced commentary from the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, right-click at the top of the Commentary window (Mac ctrl+click) and select ‘Open scholarly commentary’ from the context menu …
Text translation
Bring up a complete translation by right-clicking the top of the text window (Mac: ctrl+click) …
Translation window
… A complete, newly commissioned translation of the passage will appear in a new window.
Basic commentary notes
Options to hide linguistic, stylistic and historical notes appear within the basic commentary context menu. Repetitive notes can also be hidden, and users may switch between page and lemma views.