I’d like to advertise my love of the computer programme Diogenes, which I think is completely genius. It’s completely free, available on the Durham University website, and allows you to search all of Latin and Greek literature for phrases and words; once you have the bit you want, you can search other occurences of any word and its definition. It makes my Latin homework so quick, and I know I’m going to use it all the time for revising my set texts.
You have to have a CD of all the literature in order to use it - if you’re at Cambridge, someone in the department should be able to get hold of this for you. It does end up slightly depressing, though, as all of Latin literature is around 10mb. How much information are we going to leave behind for the future? How long is it going to take them to sort through it all?
