The article presents a new online resource : the Corpus Corporum, an open Latin text repository and tool hosted at the University of Zurich. It is organised as a meta-collection of Latin text corpora from various sources which can be used separately or collectively. Currently there are some 130 million words loaded from all epochs during which Latin was used. They can be searched and studied in various ways : for instance as proximity searches, time restricted searches or lemmatised searches. Word frequency lists and concordances can also be generated – all of this on any level between single work and globally. Furthermore the tool is useful for reading texts online as the user can click words to get their grammatical form resolved and dictionary entries about them displayed. The database is fed by root texts in the standardised TEI xml format which are downloadable freely in various formats (if their owners agree). Apart from Latin texts, a few Greek texts and a version of the Hebrew bible are also experimentally loaded into the database. The article explains how this resource works and what texts it currently contains, featuring graphics showing text volume per time. It ends with a few
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