Credits and licences

Lectio is a reader for Latin and Sanskrit: each word has its parse, dictionary entry, a gloss in context and notes, with literal and published translations alongside. It is built from the open sources below.

Texts

Vergil, Aeneid II and IV; Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I: Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University (canonical-latinLit). CC BY-SA
Augustine, Confessions I: J. J. O'Donnell's text (Oxford, 1992, released by the editor for free use), via The Latin Library.
Nala and Damayantī (Mahābhārata 3.50), with its word segmentation, lemmas and morphology: the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Oliver Hellwig. CC BY 4.0

Translations

All are in the public domain.

Aeneid: J. W. Mackail (1885, Project Gutenberg); Theodore C. Williams (1910, Perseus); John Dryden (1697, Project Gutenberg).
De Rerum Natura: H. A. J. Munro (1864, Wikisource); William Ellery Leonard (1916, Perseus).
Confessions: J. G. Pilkington (1876, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, via CCEL); E. B. Pusey (1838, Project Gutenberg).
Nala and Damayantī: H. H. Milman (1835, Project Gutenberg); Edwin Arnold (1885, in Hindu Literature, Project Gutenberg).

Dictionaries and grammar

Latin dictionary entries: William Whitaker's WORDS (freely licensed), with vowel lengths from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879), via Perseus. CC BY-SA
Latin first-draft parsing: LatinCy, Patrick J. Burns. MIT
Sanskrit dictionary entries: Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), as excerpted in the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit. CC BY 4.0
Sanskrit declension and conjugation tables: vidyut-prakriya, an implementation of Pāṇini's grammar by the Ambuda project. MIT
Latin tables, form checks and everything else: written for this reader.

How the annotations were made

Each passage was drafted automatically from the sources above, checked by rules, and then reviewed once by Claude (Anthropic), working only from the passage, its draft, the dictionary entries and the translations. Reading needs no AI. The first thirty lines of Aeneid IV were annotated by hand and are the benchmark: the reviewed drafts agree with them on about 97% of full parses. Mistakes remain; treat the notes as a well-informed commentary, not an authority.

Licence of this site's data

The annotations are derived in part from CC BY-SA material (the Perseus texts and Lewis & Short) and are shared under the same licence, CC BY-SA 4.0, with attribution to the sources above.