Virgil: The Complete Works of Virgil — a complete modern English translation made in 2026 by Scriptorium Press directly from the Latin, free to read online, free to download (EPUB and plain text), and free to listen to. 26 books; about 138,960 words. The translation was produced by a Claude model fleet and checked against the original; the audiobook is read by a synthetic voice, and both say so.
Who made this translation. Translated from the Latin of the Latin Library text, with standard line numbering, by Scriptorium Press, 2026. Claude Sonnet 5.5 translation fleet (152 batches); Claude Opus 5.5 referee audit on every batch (111 findings, all fixed); Claude Opus 5.5 arbitration, and translation of the opening and closing of every book and the most-read passages (48 batches). Zero shared 8-word runs with prior public-domain translations (Dryden, Conington, Mackail, Morris, Taylor, Rhoades, Humphries). The number before each paragraph is Virgil’s line number; Aeneid 5.778 is printed before 5.777, and lines editors suspect are later additions stand in [square brackets].
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