Terms of Use & Community Guidelines

Acceptance

These terms and our “Data & privacy” notice apply to all use of the Service — reading, commenting, filing error reports and so on. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

The Service & AI translations

The Service is a library for reading Greek and Latin classics alongside translations and notes in four languages. The translations and notes are a pre-final text: they begin as an AI draft and are revised over time, reflecting curators' corrections and readers' discussion, and may contain errors or inaccuracies. For scholarly citation or authority, please consult the original text and an established critical edition or translation. The Service is provided “as is” and we do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of its content.

Your posts & licence

You represent that you hold the rights needed for anything you post — comments, error reports, suggested corrections. By posting, you grant the Service a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to display, reproduce, translate (including AI translation into the four languages), adapt and incorporate your contribution into the text.

Comments, error reports and suggested corrections posted to the Service are kept as a record of scholarly dialogue and, like the Service's source texts, are published under CC BY-SA 4.0 (ShareAlike). Adopted contributions are recorded in the public changelog and credited to you. Because of the licence, once posted and published, content cannot in principle be retracted or erased: you can “hide” a post from other readers, but the content itself is retained in the system for preservation of the record and abuse handling. Each comment has a stable id and can be referenced individually through a citable link. See “Data & privacy” for details.

Community guidelines

Comments are a space for scholarly conversation that deepens the reading of a text. We ask that you: be respectful to other readers; stay on topic (the reading, interpretation and background of the passage); try to cite evidence or sources; and post in one of the four languages (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean).

What is not allowed

The following are prohibited: posting unlawful content, or content that defames, discriminates against, harasses or threatens others; spam, advertising or irrelevant links; content that infringes others' copyright or other rights; impersonation; and unauthorised access, automated bulk access, or anything else that disrupts the operation of the Service.

Moderation & removal

We may hide or remove any post we judge to breach these terms or the community guidelines, without prior notice, and may restrict or suspend accounts for repeated violations. If you find a problematic post, please let us know via an error report or the feedback form.

Source-text licence

The Service's source texts derive from prior digital editions such as the Perseus Digital Library and Open Greek and Latin, and are provided under CC BY-SA. See “About” and the “Source data” section on each work page for the provenance and licence details.

Disclaimer & liability

The Service is provided “as is”, without warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or of the accuracy or availability of its content. To the extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for any damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Service.

Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms as needed. We will announce material changes by updating this page (and notify where appropriate). Continued use of the Service after a revision means you accept the updated terms.

Governing law & contact

These terms are governed by the laws of Japan. Any dispute relating to the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the court for the operators' location as the court of first instance. The Service is run by 岩田 直也 (Nagoya University / National Institute of Informatics), 田中 一孝 (J. F. Oberlin University) and 小川 潤 (the University of Tokyo). For questions or contact, please use our feedback form: https://forms.gle/1NTz78iubG9bwrgQA