Latin Reader

Latin Reader

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5
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Home page
Library page with collection of Latin works
Reading page with source text presented
Dictionary page displaying dictionary search results.
Reading page with navigation bar, app bar, and right-click menu shown.
Library page with collection of English translations that can be read.
Reading page with user-added margin notes.
Reading page with Dictionary dialog box shown.
Reading page with Translation dialog box shown.

App details

Release date

2014-11-10

Last update

2019-01-29

Product ID

9WZDNCRFJJC0

Categories

Books & reference

About Latin Reader

The Latin Reader app contains several original works in Latin for reading or annotation.

If you want to submit questions or feedback, please visit the GitHub site for this app at https://github.com/telpirion/ClassicsReader/

Key features

  • 8 works in the original Latin, including Caesar's "Gallic Wars" (De Bello Gallico) and Virgil's "Aeneid"
  • 8 translations of Latin works, including Caesar's "Gallic Wars", Virgil's "Aeneid", and Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things"
  • Integrated Latin-to-English dictionary.
  • Right-click access to the integrated dictionary from the reading view.
  • Touch-friendly reading view providing clean, simple, uncluttered access to text.
  • Search the Latin-to-English dictionary by exact dictionary entry or by stem (partial search).
  • "Marginalia" (in the margins) note taking.
  • Quick access to English translation of Latin source text.
  • A "word of the day" vocabulary section, randomly selected from the dictionary.
  • Integrated "Help" files accessed through the Settings charm.