great
a fantastic app: a real gift.
occasionally a few (fairly minor) typos in places (eg Bello Gallico, book 2, ch 13 s 3 ‘mallibus’ for ‘manibus’, b2 ch14 s1 ‘Cum’ for ‘eum’, which oddly aren’t present in the git data source)
occasionally a few (fairly minor) typos in places (eg Bello Gallico, book 2, ch 13 s 3 ‘mallibus’ for ‘manibus’, b2 ch14 s1 ‘Cum’ for ‘eum’, which oddly aren’t present in the git data source)
And Now
How beautiful it is to mine eyes that I might look upon Ancient Greek and Latin Literature in my pocket. A library in my palm with the generous scribbles of geniuses from the dusty days
Astonishingly good
I’ve been studying Greek and Latin for 25 years. Early on Perseus became available, which was amazing, but Bellerophon is even more amazing. It’s a VAST repository of G/L texts, including by many authors I’ve never even heard of. Classic authors, Church fathers, obscure geographers and philosophers—they’re in here. The more common texts have English translations, so you can split the screen and do a Loeb-like side-by-side comparison. Even 25 years in, I still struggle with these languages, but having a vast repository of texts with translations gives a lot of material to play with. Also, you can pull up a quick morphological analysis if stuck on a word. My only complaints are minor. It would be nice if it could automatically find the English text (if present) and give you a one-click way to get it into split-screen. Also, to get the morphology requires a double-tap plus finding and selecting an option from a larger menu. It’d be nice if a long-tap on a word would pop up the analysis. Otherwise, wow, well done.
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🏛️OPTIMĒ🏛️
Great for referencing ancient literature 👍
Full of ancient classics
A whole library of Latin and Greek ancient classics in your hand,even the Anglo-Saxon’s Beowulf!Just bite it!
Fantastic App - In Need of a Couple Tweaks
I use this app nearly every day in my phone and my iPad. It’s lightning fast and allows me to read for pleasure, or hone in on a particular word or phrase in a given text. As another reviewer said, it’s great for reading and research. There are so few typos (and some have been corrected already in the big authors like Seneca or Plato), so I’m confident I can read for pleasure and have never hit a confusing sentence that wasn’t just my fault!
I’d like to see two things to improve this app. First, the Latin dictionary will tell me the form but not the meaning. I get both in Greek when I highlight a word and press “Analyze” in the menu that pops up. All I get in Latin when I do the same is the form. Having the dictionary built right in is clutch! And so the app is only halfway there.
I’d also like to see a Mac version, or at least a good way to export highlights. I found myself highlighting at first, and I still will for certain authors when I know I’ll come back to the app. But since the highlights can’t easily be moved or synced (to my knowledge), they feel kind of locked in and so I find myself highlighting less. Even just a text export would help me move it to a spreadsheet or something more permanent.
Thanks for developing this fantastic app and making it free! I hope it just continues to get better and the corpus keeps growing! I’s love to see more Late Antiquity/Patristic authors. I read some Cyprian of Carthage but no Gregory the Great, for example.
I’d like to see two things to improve this app. First, the Latin dictionary will tell me the form but not the meaning. I get both in Greek when I highlight a word and press “Analyze” in the menu that pops up. All I get in Latin when I do the same is the form. Having the dictionary built right in is clutch! And so the app is only halfway there.
I’d also like to see a Mac version, or at least a good way to export highlights. I found myself highlighting at first, and I still will for certain authors when I know I’ll come back to the app. But since the highlights can’t easily be moved or synced (to my knowledge), they feel kind of locked in and so I find myself highlighting less. Even just a text export would help me move it to a spreadsheet or something more permanent.
Thanks for developing this fantastic app and making it free! I hope it just continues to get better and the corpus keeps growing! I’s love to see more Late Antiquity/Patristic authors. I read some Cyprian of Carthage but no Gregory the Great, for example.
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Treasure trove
—of classics, well set out. Very convenient.
Decent
Layout of the app is great. Some greek paraing seems to be incorrect
An astonishing app
A truly incredible selection of ancient texts in their original languages and English translations, with a beautiful interface. One of the top five apps in existence.
powerful app!
this is a great app for general reading and even for research purposes, thank you so much!! hopefully there will be more texts in addition to an already quite extensive corpus!
Incredible! The wished for app
I am so grateful to the developer of this app. It is incredibly powerful and well designed for the reading of Latin and Greek. I look forward to using it to dive back into texts I have long avoided, newly confident that this app is going to ease the process of mastering them very significantly. Thank you thank you
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Beautiful
Adrian has created yet another beautiful, functional, amazingly free app. I can’t believe how many texts are included and how much you can do with this 1.0 release. Just download it and start playing around! Also check out Protagoras for lexica.
it’s amazing
This app is exactly what I wanted, and then some. I don’t understand how it’s free. I’m going to have to figure out how to donate. The split screen being about to get through texts in Latin/Greek and English simultaneously is awesome.
