Editions, rights and licences
Sources
Where every text on this site came from and under what terms. This is the part of the site to trust: the translations and source texts are real books, and these are the ones they are.
Editions, per work
Rights verified against Wikidata before publication| Work | Source text | Translation |
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| The Periplus of the Erythraean SeaAnonymous, formerly ascribed to Arrian | tlg0071.tlg001.1st1K-grc1.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 |
archive.org cu31924030139236 none stated — public domain by date |
| Clouds — the play Socrates was still answering at his trialAristophanes | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0019.tlg003.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
William James Hickie, Clouds. PerseusDL tlg0019.tlg003.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Indica 18–43 — the voyage of NearchusArrian, reporting Nearchus | tlg0074.tlg002.perseus-grc2.xml — Hercher and Eberhard, Arriani Nicomediensis Scripta Minora (Teubner, 1885), served by Perseus under CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Project Gutenberg 55054 none stated — public domain by date |
| De Officiis 1 - what a decent man may do for moneyCicero | PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi0474.phi055.perseus-lat1 - the Latin as printed alongside Miller's Loeb. none stated — public domain by date |
PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi0474.phi055.perseus-eng1 - Walter Miller, Loeb Classical Library (1913). none stated — public domain by date |
| For Marcus Caelius — the trial that became a character assassinationCicero | PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi0474.phi024.perseus-lat2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Charles Duke Yonge, In Defense of Marcus Caelius. PerseusDL phi0474.phi024.perseus-eng1. none stated — public domain by date |
| Annals 6 — the last years of Tiberius, and the credit crisis of 33Cornelius Tacitus | PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi1351.phi005.perseus-lat1 — the Latin text as Perseus serves it, TEI P4. none stated — public domain by date |
PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi1351.phi005.perseus-eng1 — Church and Brodribb, The Annals of Tacitus (Macmillan, 1869). none stated — public domain by date |
| The Life of Epicurus — the slanders, the will, and a letter written while dyingDiogenes Laertius | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. PerseusDL tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Letter to Herodotus — the physics, compressed for memorisingEpicurus | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. PerseusDL tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Letter to Menoeceus — death is nothing to us, and pleasure is not what you thinkEpicurus | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. PerseusDL tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Principal Doctrines — forty sentences meant to be known by heartEpicurus | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. PerseusDL tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Life — the Galilee commandFlavius Josephus | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit tlg0526.tlg002.perseus-grc2, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. NOTE: the Greek is divided into 430 Niese sections while the English is chaptered at 76 anchor points; each unit's Greek spans from its anchor to the next. See alignment_note. CC BY-SA 4.0 |
William Whiston, The Life of Flavius Josephus, in The Works of Flavius Josephus (Auburn and Rochester, NY: Alden and Beardsley, 1856). PerseusDL tlg0526.tlg002.perseus-eng2, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Histories, Book 2 — the Egyptian inquiryHerodotus | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc2 (Godley's Loeb Greek, Harvard UP / Heinemann, 1920-25). NOTE: the Perseus file records no availability statement. Public-domain status is inferred from the publication date and is NOT evidenced by the source file - see the provenance blocker in the handoff. none stated — public domain by date |
A. D. Godley, The Histories (Harvard University Press / William Heinemann, Loeb Classical Library, 1920-25). PerseusDL tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng2. NOTE: the Perseus file records no availability statement; US public domain is inferred from publication date, not evidenced. none stated — public domain by date |
| Airs, Waters, Places — how where you live decides what kills youHippocrates | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0627.tlg002.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Francis Adams, On Airs, Waters, and Places. PerseusDL tlg0627.tlg002.perseus-eng3. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Odyssey — ten years to get home, and a house full of men eating the estateHomer | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-grc2. none stated — public domain by date |
Augustus Taber Murray, Odyssey. PerseusDL tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng3. none stated — public domain by date |
| Ab Urbe Condita 34 - repealing the Oppian LawLivy | PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi0914.phi00134.perseus-lat1 - Weissenborn and Mueller's text. none stated — public domain by date |
PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi0914.phi00134.perseus-eng2 - Cyrus Edmonds, Bohn's Classical Library. none stated — public domain by date |
| Alexander the False Prophet — a new god with a puppet snake, and the Epicureans who called itLucian of Samosata | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0062.tlg038.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Austin Morris Harmon, Alexander the False Prophet. PerseusDL tlg0062.tlg038.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| On Funerals — the business of mourningLucian of Samosata | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0062.tlg036.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Henry Watson Fowler, Of Mourning. PerseusDL tlg0062.tlg036.perseus-eng4. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Ship, or The WishesLucian of Samosata | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg065.perseus-grc2 (Luciani Samosatensis Opera). CC BY-SA 3.0. A real digital edition with canonical section numbers — not OCR. CC BY-SA 4.0 |
H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, The Works of Lucian of Samosata, vol. IV (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905), pp. 33-51, from archive.org worksoflucianofs04luciuoft. US public domain by publication date. Both translators died in 1933 and 1918, so the work is also public domain in life+70 jurisdictions. none stated — public domain by date |
| A True StoryLucian of Samosata | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0062.tlg012.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Henry Watson Fowler, The True History. PerseusDL tlg0062.tlg012.perseus-eng4. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Apology of Socrates — a defence that refuses to pleadPlato | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0059.tlg002.perseus-grc2. none stated — public domain by date |
Harold North Fowler, Apology. PerseusDL tlg0059.tlg002.perseus-eng2. none stated — public domain by date |
| That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life ImpossiblePlutarch | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg139.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
William W. Goodwin, That it is Not Possible to Live Pleasurably According to the Doctrine of Epicurus. PerseusDL tlg0007.tlg139.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Solon — the man who cancelled the debtsPlutarch | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg007.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Bernadotte Perrin, Solon. PerseusDL tlg0007.tlg007.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Satires 1.5 — the journey to BrundisiumQ. Horatius Flaccus | PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi0893.phi004.perseus-lat2. none stated — public domain by date |
Christopher Smart, Satires. PerseusDL phi0893.phi004.perseus-eng2. none stated — public domain by date |
| Geography, Book 17 — Egypt and North AfricaStrabo | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2 (Meineke, Strabonis Geographica, Teubner, 1877). NOTE: the Perseus file records no availability statement; public domain is inferred from the 1877 date, not evidenced. none stated — public domain by date |
H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer, The Geography of Strabo (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-57). PerseusDL tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng4, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus also ships eng3 (H. L. Jones, Loeb), which covers only books 1-9 and therefore contains no Book 17. CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Plague at Athens — Thucydides 2.47-54Thucydides | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Richard Crawley, History of the Peloponnesian War. PerseusDL tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng6. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| On Architecture, Book 10 — machines, and how they multiply a manVitruvius | PerseusDL canonical-latinLit, phi1056.phi001.perseus-lat1. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Morris Hicky Morgan, The Ten Books on Architecture. PerseusDL phi1056.phi001.perseus-eng1. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Anabasis, Book 4 — the march to the seaXenophon | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0032.tlg006.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Carleton L. Brownson, Anabasis. PerseusDL tlg0032.tlg006.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The training of a wife — Oeconomicus 7-10Xenophon | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0032.tlg003.perseus-grc2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Edgar Carew Marchant, Economics. PerseusDL tlg0032.tlg003.perseus-eng2. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Poroi — ways and means to raise Athens' revenueXenophon | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0032.tlg011.perseus-grc2 — Marchant's Oxford Classical Text, served under CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 4.0 |
PerseusDL canonical-greekLit, tlg0032.tlg011.perseus-eng2 — E. C. Marchant, Xenophon in Seven Volumes vol. 7, Scripta Minora (Loeb Classical Library, 1925). CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Acts 27 — the voyage to Rome and the shipwreckthe author of Acts (traditionally Luke) | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit tlg0031.tlg005.perseus-grc2, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Chapter/verse structure; units are grouped verses. CC BY-SA 4.0 |
World English Bible, ed. Michael Paul Johnson (Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024), a revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. PerseusDL tlg0031.tlg005.perseus-eng2, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. The WEB is released into the public domain by its editors. CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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