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.









