# Help me find websites about latin/middle english **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 7, 2010, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-websites-about-latin-middle-english/556343 "2010-10-07T07:36:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-websites-about-latin-middle-english/556343/1 "2010-10-07T07:36:32Z")
A friend of mine taught high-school Latin for 40+ years, and is a classicist and language buff, and since she doesn’t use the internet much I was hoping to compile a list of scholarly (or at least reliable) websites that she might like. Anything pertaining to Latin, Middle English, medieval or roman history, etymology, or basically anything else related to either language would be great. I don’t know what’s out there, and it’s abstract enough that it’s hard to google, but I was hoping to find anything approaching [badastronomy.com](http://badastronomy.com) for Classics. So are there any halfway-decent resources out there? ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-websites-about-latin-middle-english/556343/2 "2010-10-07T09:01:01Z")
[Sacred Text Archive](http://sacred-texts.com/) has a bunch of stuff in Latin. There is no language selection option, so you either have to browse or search the site for “latin”, for instance. Most (all?) of the texts are digitized from out-of-copyright works. [The Internet Archive](http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=latin%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts) is an good source of these things as well. I’m sure a few good keyword searches on either site will open up for an amazing selection of works in Latin or Middle English. ETA: I see that you are looking for sites _about_ these things, not written in the languages themselves. In that case I’m afraid I can’t help you. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-websites-about-latin-middle-english/556343/3 "2010-10-07T10:59:17Z")
[The Perseus Project](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/search) has the entire Lewis & Short online in a searchable form. This used to be a precious resource that most Latin students could ill afford, but now anyone with an internet connection can access it. They also have many texts online. [The Latin Library](http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/) also features a number of texts, including Medieval Latin and some neo-Latin. [Whitaker’s Words](http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm) is a program that can parse a given Latin morpheme and tell you what word it is, which is often difficult especially for beginners because some words take on a different form in the perfect system. Here is an [online version](http://archives.nd.edu/words.html). There are several front-ends for Whitaker’s Words. My favorite is [Legible Latin](http://perlingua.com/LatinHome/Legible/). [Laura Gibbs](http://bestlatin.blogspot.com/) does a blog about Latin, with daily features such as a word-of-the-day, various mottos-of-the-day, etc. She also collates Aesop’s Fables from various sources and makes them available online, including in forms [specially marked for reading practice](http://ictibus.blogspot.com/2010/06/iuppiter-et-peccata-scripta-defuria.html) in either the classical or the ecclesiastical style. Many books which were precious and rare posessions once upon a time are now scanned in and available online, including Latin dictionaries, grammars, readers, etc. In addition to the Internet Archive, as Panurge pointed out, [Google Books](http://books.google.com/) has many rare books available to download, as well as pre-views of more recent works still in copyright. [Project Gutenberg](http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/la) has a handful of Latin resources, and my favorite would have to be [The Handbook of Latin synonyms](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33197/33197-h/33197-h.htm), which expounds on the denotative and connotative force of many similar-seeming Latin words. There is the [Vicipaedia](http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_prima): Wikipedia in Latin. That’s just the stuff that might be of direct interest to someone not looking to get involved in the Living Latin scene, where there are blogs, bulletin boards, social networks, contemporary poets, ect. [I myself](http://nubifera.wikispaces.com/Sp%C5%ABx) have been translating some out-of-copyright materials into Latin, since I don’t believe you can know a language’s full vigor from just its most high-minded materials. You need loads and loads of trash to read. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-websites-about-latin-middle-english/556343/4 "2010-10-07T12:22:02Z")
[Omniglot.com](http://Omniglot.com) , for all your writing system needs… since Latin was written in lots of interesting systems, not just its proprietary one. ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-websites-about-latin-middle-english/556343/5 "2010-10-08T04:07:05Z")
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, she’ll be thrilled- thank you everyone for the great sites! 🙂