Lectrix
Overview
A powerful online tool designed to help students
read Greek and Latin texts in the original
language by providing them with all the
information required to actively construe a text at
the click of a mouse.
Content
• 8 texts
– 4 Greek
– 4 Latin
• Study tools
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Dictionary definition
Parser
Basic commentary
Advanced commentary
Translation
Background material on grammar and context
Texts Included
• Latin
- Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche
- Cicero: Catilinarians I-II
- Ovid: Heroides
- Virgil: Aeneid Book IX
• Greek
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Euripides: Medea
Lysias: Selected Speeches
Plato: Ion
Sophocles: Antigone
Key Points
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Innovative interface
Key texts
Unique functionality
Versatile study support resource
Faculty endorsement
Dynamic content set
Subsets
Lectrix home page
Information
relating to Lectrix
and all available
texts
Quick links to About
Lectrix, The Texts
and Help notes
Links to FAQs,
suggestions for use,
Subscriber Services,
dictionary entries
and subscribed texts
Text overview page
Accessing one of the
subscribed texts returns a
page listing all the sub-divided
content, if appropriate to that
text
Lectrix interface
Clicking on a subheading
from one of the text pages
returns the Lectrix tool
Four panes are available: the passage in
the native language, the basic
commentary, dictionary information and
a grammatical parser
Window activation
To activate the windows, click on
a word. This will then populate
the boxes.
Lectrix windows
Scroll through the
sections of the text …
Any of the windows may be closed
by clicking on the red cross in the
top right hand corner, and they
may also be moved around the
screen. Windows can also be
stacked and resized.
Advanced commentary
To open the corresponding advanced
commentary from the Cambridge Greek
and Latin Classics series, right-click at the
top of the Commentary window (Mac
ctrl+click) and select ‘Open scholarly
commentary’ from the context menu …
Commentary window
… The advanced commentary
opens in a new window.
Text translation
Bring up a complete translation
by right-clicking the top of the
text window (Mac: ctrl+click) …
Translation window
… A complete, newly commissioned
translation of the passage will
appear in a new window.
Basic commentary notes
Options to hide linguistic, stylistic
and historical notes appear within
the basic commentary context
menu. Repetitive notes can also be
hidden, and users may switch
between page and lemma views.
Highlighting notes
Words with corresponding notes
within the basic commentary may
be highlighted by right-clicking on
the top of the main text window
(Mac: ctrl+click)
In this instance, linguistic notes
have been turned off and are not
highlighted, nor displayed, in the
basic commentary window.
Trials and Ordering
• Free 30 day trials available to institutions
• For more information or to order:
– Contact your Sales Manager
– Email [email protected] (UK/ROW)
– Email [email protected] (US)
Support
• Technical Support
- Comprehensive customer support for all post-purchase needs
• Subscriber Services
– Access 24 x 7
– ICOLC compliant usage stats
– Extensive help notes available on-site
• Marketing Support
– Range of supporting materials
• Local Support
– Training available
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