Welcome to Rainbow Latin Reader!
This site provides 26 dual-language Latin-English documents with a built-in dictionary. You can find the list of currently available works below. Please note that their number will be continuously increasing in the future.
1. Document Index
Cornelius Tacitus
Title / Link | Perseus code | Latin word count |
Germany and its Tribes | phi1351.phi002 | 5510 |
The Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola | phi1351.phi001 | 6739 |
Lucretius
Title / Link | Perseus code | Latin word count |
De Rerum Natura | phi0550.phi001 | 48611 |
M. Tullius Cicero
Title / Link | Perseus code | Latin word count |
Against Quintus Caecilius | phi0474.phi004 | 5777 |
For P. Quinctius | phi0474.phi001 | 8494 |
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria | phi0474.phi002 | 13167 |
In Defense of the Proposed Manilian Law | phi0474.phi009 | 6654 |
In the Senate after his Return | phi0474.phi019 | 4286 |
Laelius on Friendship | phi0474.phi052 | 9266 |
On the Agrarian Law | phi0474.phi011 | 13656 |
Quintus Roscius | phi0474.phi003 | 4692 |
To the Citizens after his Return | phi0474.phi018 | 2607 |
P. Ovidius Naso
Title / Link | Perseus code | Latin word count |
Epistles | phi0959.phi002 | 25557 |
P. Vergilius Maro
Title / Link | Perseus code | Latin word count |
Eclogues | phi0690.phi001 | 5705 |
Sallust
Title / Link | Perseus code | Latin word count |
Conspiracy of Catiline | phi0631.phi001 | 10545 |
The Jugurthine War | phi0631.phi002 | 19204 |
Suetonius
Title / Link | Perseus code | Latin word count |
Caligula | phi1348.abo014 | 7719 |
Claudius | phi1348.abo015 | 6537 |
Domitian | phi1348.abo022 | 3570 |
Galba | phi1348.abo017 | 2846 |
Julius Caesar | phi1348.abo011 | 9711 |
Otho | phi1348.abo018 | 1660 |
Tiberius | phi1348.abo013 | 9262 |
Titus | phi1348.abo021 | 1480 |
Vespasian | phi1348.abo020 | 3199 |
Vitellius | phi1348.abo019 | 2389 |
2. Credits
Rainbow Latin Reader was created by Tamas Bolner and published under the Apache License (Copyright 2024). It is based on the following 3 projects:
- Perseus Canonical Latin literature
- Whitaker's Words.
- Lemmatized Latin texts by Thibault Clérice et al.
3. Useful links
- Introductory video for this project.
- You can download all documents in a ZIP file and open them on a tablet or desktop PC without network connection.
- The software which generates these documents: Rainbow Latin Generator.