From the General Editors

Winged Words and the Digital Library

Over a century ago, James Loeb announced the founding of the Loeb Classical Library: “means must be found” 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”—scholars, students, and general readers alike. In our online era the digital Loeb Classical Library has found new means to bring its treasures within reach, perhaps more broadly than ever. And so we 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 Anglophone world’s most readily accessible collection of classical masterpieces.” —Wall Street Journal

PROSE Award for Best Humanities eProduct —Association of American Publishers

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August 10, 2026

Forthcoming Loebs (Fall 2026)

AELIUS ARISTIDES
Orations, Volume III
Edited and Translated by Michael Trapp
	Aelius Aristides (117–after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism, produced speeches and lectures, declamations on historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and essays on a wide variety of subjects. This volume contains all of his extant declamations.
FRAGMENTARY REPUBLICAN LATIN, VOLUME VIII
Accius. Turpilius. Minor Comic Poets
Edited and Translated by Gesine Manuwald
	This volume collects the fragments of Accius (170–ca. 80 BC), a prolific writer of serious drama; Turpilius (died 104/103 BC), the last known writer of comedies from the Republican period; and what remains of the so-called minor comic poets such as Terence’s opponent Luscius Lanuvinus.

March 31, 2026

New Loebs (July 2026)

ORPHIC COLLECTION
Edited by Alberto Bernabé
Translated by Michael Chase
	Orpheus is familiar from mythology as a peerless bard with superhuman musical abilities, but he was also considered by some to be an authentic poet. This edition collects works representing the most ancient Orphic literature, excluding later mythological, scientific, and pseudo-scientific poems opportunistically attributed to him.
PLUTARCH
Moralia, Volume I
Edited and Translated by William H. Race
	This edition, which replaces the original by Frank Cole Babbitt (1927), includes five essays: The Education of Children, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry, On Listening to Lectures, How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend, and How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue.