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Transformanshentoday at 12:10 AM1 replyview on HN

An interesting project. Ancient languages have always fascinated me, but the effort required to read even a single page of Greek or Latin can be a serious obstacle It's nice to see tools that simplify this process. I might even want to give it another try


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turpentinetoday at 12:22 AM

Online tools to simplify this process like Perseus have existed for at least 15 years, and you could view original texts side by side with English for comparison, and original words have all their cross-references hyperlinked etc. All maintained by academics committed to rigorous and nuanced approaches to translation.

Ancient Library is some vibecoded alternative that the LLM translation it uses will be incorrect. Color me unimpressed.