From the General Editor

Winged Words and the Digital Library

Over a century ago, James Loeb announced the founding of the Loeb Classical Library and his intention to bring the written treasures of the ancient Greek and Roman world “within the reach of all who care for the finer things of life.” Now it gives us great pleasure to welcome you – old friends and newcomers, scholars, students, and general readers alike – to the digital Loeb Classical Library, and to invite you to enjoy its Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations, in the familiar ways and in surprisingly new ones.

Praise for the Digital Loeb Classical Library

“The Loeb Library… remains to this day the Anglophone world’s most readily accessible collection of classical masterpieces… Now, with their digitization, [the translations] have crossed yet another frontier.”—Wall Street Journal

“The digital Loeb Classical Library will be a transformative experience for professionals doing research and provide everyone else with a wonderful buffet of reading to browse.”—Weekly Standard

News

June 24, 2025

New Loebs (June 2025)

CICERO
Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. De Lege Agraria
Edited and Translated by Andrew R. Dyck
Cicero, Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. De Lege Agraria This volume contains four speeches from Cicero’s pre-consular, and one from his consular period. It replaces the original Loeb edition by John Henry Freese (1930), which did not include Pro Tullio. The texts have been freshly edited and translated, with full introductions and ample notation.

June 6, 2025

Editorial News

The Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library Foundation are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Gesine Manuwald as General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library, joining Professor Jeffrey Henderson in the newly shared role. Professor Manuwald is Professor of Latin in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College, London. A prolific scholar of Roman drama and epic, Cicero’s speeches, and reception studies, especially Neo-Latin literature, Professor Manuwald is no stranger to the LCL: For the last several years she has served as Series Editor of the multi-volume Fragmentary Republican Latin, to which she has also contributed. Other Loebs from her pen include editions of Cato and Cicero. Read more about Professor Manuwald and her research here.