Oxford Classical Texts

Oxford Classical Texts (OCT ), Latin Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, is a published by the Oxford University Press series of text- critical editions of authors of Greek and Latin literature and philosophy. Texts from the special sciences such as Euclid's Elements are not represented in the series. The volumes contain in addition to a critically edited text an apparatus which is just like the on the text and editing history informational Praefatio usually written in Latin; Translation and commentary are not provided. Target audience, making it the scientific users beyond the boundaries of national languages ​​of time. In this respect, the English Latin to rank as the lingua franca to expire also appears in the field of classical studies, Hugh Lloyd -Jones and Nigel Guy Wilson, in their edition of Sophocles broken in 1990 with the tradition of the Latin letter and wrote her foreword for the first time in English (even if the critical apparatus is further formulated latin).

As Oxoniensis refers mostly a single text output ( complete: editio Oxoniensis ), rarely the whole collection; as one proceeds with the term Teubneriana in relation to the competing number of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana.