Commentarius.
Commentary Production Platform

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Commentarius takes classical texts from raw notes to press-quality commentary: morphological analysis, vocabulary, grammatical notes, and apparatus, typeset for print, the web, and the classroom.

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Latin·ἀρχαία Ἑλληνική·संस्कृतम्

P. Vergili Maronis Aeneis · I commentary
1Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
Ītaliam fātō profugus Lāvīniaque vēnit
lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
4vī superum, saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram;

1arma virumque — the poem’s two subjects, war and the man, in emphatic first position; canō answers the Homeric incipit. A&G §598f

2fātō — ablative of cause with profugus: exiled by fate, not by guilt. A&G §404

3lītora — accusative of place to which without preposition, a poetic construction. A&G §428g

A&G linked · ready for LaTeX / DCC / handout
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Configure once, and every chapter travels every line while you watch the map: formatted, merged, annotated, illustrated, and delivered into an editor your whole team can work in.

  1. Upload Paste the Latin and drop in scanned commentaries (PDF, DOCX, or plain text; OCR is included).
  2. Dry run The first chapter only, for a few cents. Read real notes before committing to the book.
  3. Release the rest One click. Chapters move in parallel while a live meter shows what the run has cost.
  4. Edit together Margin comments, held-back suggestions, version history, and @servius answering questions about its own notes.
  5. Export Word for colleagues, HTML for the web, paste-ready DCC fields for Drupal.
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Commentarius Streamlined architecture The source text has its macrons checked, then is split into chapters; uploaded commentaries are formatted and split by chapter, then merged per chapter. Servius adds notes. Optional cleaner, linker and Imagines passes follow. Vocabulary runs on its own line. Both lines terminate at the editor. Sources pdf · docx · txt Format dcc style Split by chapter Text latin · greek Macrons vowel length Chapters n files Merge per chapter Servius notes · dedup Cleaner Linker Imagines Vocabulary per chapter Notes n tabs Vocabulary n tabs Editor co-edit ch.3 ch.2 ch.4

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The most-used tools on Commentarius are the ones that do the tedious work: building vocabulary lists tuned to what students don’t already know, formatting raw notes into clean commentary, and merging generations of scholarship into one working document. And wherever the platform makes a grammatical claim, it attaches the Allen & Greenough section — so you check it against the grammar book, not against our word.

vocabulary · formatting · merging · every note A&G-linked

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ancient languages: Latin and Ancient Greek, with Sanskrit, Avestan, and Biblical Hebrew in beta