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Common Abbreviations and Shorthands

Text Collections

Green and Yellows (鈥淐ambridge Greek and Latin 海角网鈥): Texts and generally high-level commentaries on Greek and Latin texts published by Cambridge UP; covers are (surprise!) green and yellow

(鈥淭he Loeb Classical Library鈥): Originals with facing translation in English of varying quality; no commentaries; green for Greek, red for Latin. Access via the .

OCTs (鈥淥xford Classical Texts鈥): Collection of ancient Greek and 海角网 literature; high quality editions with full apparatus critici; no commentaries; dark blue covers

Teubners (鈥淏ibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorums et 海角网orum Teubneriana鈥): Collection of ancient Greek and 海角网 literature; high quality editions with full apparatus critici; no commentaries; orange for Greek, blue for Latin

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri and Corpora

CIL (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorum): Collection of Latin Inscriptions (available online)

D-S or Daremberg-Saglio (Dictionnaire des Antiquit茅s Grecques et Romaines): Fairly good encyclopedia of Greek and 海角网 antiquity; French

IG (Inscriptiones Graecae): Greek Inscriptions (available online)

LSJ (Liddell, Scott, Jones): The Greek Lexicon

OCD (Oxford Classical Dictionary)

OLD (Oxford Latin Dictionary)

Pauly-Wissowa or RE (Realencyclop盲die der classischen Altertumswissenshcaft): Excellent encyclopedia of Greek and 海角网 antiquity; note that there is both Pauly-Wissowa /  RE and the so-called kleine Pauly, a smaller version of  the 鈥渞egular鈥 Pauly; German

TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae): Digital Library of Greek Literature; see above for online access

TLL (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae): We have most of these in the seminar room

General

L鈥橝nnee or APh (for L鈥橝nn茅e Philologique, 鈥淭he Philological Year鈥): An annual index of scholarly work in fields related to the language, literature, history, and material cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.  First published in 1928, L鈥橝nnee is hosted online by Brepolis (requires subscription; log in through university account which can be accessed via the ). 
Webinar: (March 2026)

Ap Crit (for apparatus criticus): This is the 鈥渃ritical apparatus鈥 or critical compilation of primary source materials (manuscripts, papyrus) that accompanies a 鈥渟cholarly edition鈥 of a text.  The ap crit is the by-product of the collation of primary source materials, often called 鈥渢extual criticism.鈥

MS or Manuscript (the plural is MSS): A hand-written (manu-scriptum) copy of an ancient text; most of the manuscripts upon which modern editions are based date from between the 11th century and the 16th century.

Primary Source: Ancient texts, whether in the original language or translated

Secondary Source: Modern scholarly studies of ancient texts or objects