The content of this site consists of primary texts in Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon and English, and secondary texts in English.

The content is in various presentation formats: XML, XHTML, DjVu, and PDF. Many of the texts are in XML which was preferred over XHTML because it was designed as an open standard to describe a syntax that can be used to define elements specific to a document unlike XHTML which has fixed tag sets. It is platform independent, free from licensing restrictions, well supported and can describe the content for a particular audience or group.

We also use DjVu files which are considerably smaller than equivalent images files, such as TIFF, PDF and JPG. DjVu uses complex text/image and compression algorithms, which allow the faithful representation of the compressed images and the editing of the text extracted from the images.

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Montium custos nemorumque, Virgo,
quae laborantes utero puellas
ter vocata audis adimisque leto,
diva triformis,

imminens villae tua pinus esto,
quam per exactos ego laetas annos
verris obliquum meditantis ictum
sanguine donem.