On the second floor of an old Bavarian palace in Munich, Germany, there's a library with high ceilings, a distinctly bookish smell and one of the world's most extensive collections of Latin texts.

It's called the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. And it's considered "the most authoritative dictionary of ancient Latin." Researchers in Germany have spent the last 125 years working on the project. By ...

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