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A Latin Library to Read Online, with Every Word Glossed

Most online Latin libraries give you the text and leave you with a dictionary. Librorum Capsula is a Latin library built for reading: every book has a definition for every word and a difficulty score, so you can find something at your level and keep going.

Looking for The Latin Library?

A Latin library for reading, not just looking up.

If you searched for The Latin Library, the free collection at thelatinlibrary.com, that is a separate site, and a very good one for finding a text. Librorum Capsula is for the next step: reading it. Open any book here and tap a word for its definition, lemma and form, or show the glosses under every word. Long vowels are marked, and each book’s difficulty score tells you how hard it is before you start.

Classical Latin

Caesar, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero and Pliny.

Late antique and medieval Latin

The Vulgate, romances, chronicles and ghost stories.

More: Medieval Latin · Latin horror stories · Latin colloquia

Easy readers

If the classics are still too hard.

The library also has the classic graded readers, written to bridge the gap between a textbook and the authors: Fabulae Faciles, Puer Romanus, Ad Alpes and Septimus, among others. See Latin books for beginners and beyond.

Questions

A few things worth knowing.

Is this The Latin Library (thelatinlibrary.com)?

No. The Latin Library is a separate, long-running free website with a very large collection of plain Latin texts. Librorum Capsula is a different project: a smaller library in which every text has a definition for every word, long vowels marked, and a difficulty score.

How many books are in the library?

149 books and readings are open now, from first readers to Virgil, Tacitus and Horace, and the library grows every month.

Is it free?

Every book opens with a free preview. A free account keeps your place, your shelf and your vocabulary; paid access opens the full catalog.

Your next book is already in the library

Pick something you can keep reading.

Open any book for a preview. A free account keeps your place, shelf, and progress; paid access opens the full catalog when you want to go farther.