Shrink ray, meet Greek dictionary.
In exchange for its considerable girth, the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek Lexicon offers a wealth of knowledge on a staggering 100,000+ words. Many of these are dialectical variants and glosses, but it inspires confidence to know that if the pen is mightier than the sword, the Greek language (courtesy of this hefty tome) is mightier than a tank shell.
Now you can take that confidence on the road. Lexiphanes carries the full-length LSJ everywhere your iPhone can go.
Lexiphanes is really fast, with a slick and modern iPhone interface. It shows you the short definition of a word so you don't need to visit the whole entry. You can bookmark a word and come back to it later.
With both your back and brain thanking you for lightening their burden you'll wonder how you ever did Greek scholarship without it.
Numeral Converter
Copyright MMXI.
Our apps automatically convert back and forth between ancient numerals and their modern Arabic equivalents. Double-check the date in your book's copyright notice (MMXI is easy, but can you figure MCCCLXVII?), or if you're reading Pindar, impress all your friends by being able to tell them that etei b' olympiados oq' is the second year of the 79th Olympiad (and hence 459 BCE.)
Short Definitions
Life's too short for long entries.
As edifying as it can be to journey through the long, serpentine valleys of LSJ's entries on every word uttered in the Greek language between Homer and Nonnus (bonus points if you know who that is), sometimes you just want to pin down the basic meaning of a word. We've got you covered. Every lexical entry in Lexidium and Lexiphanes has a short definition at the very top you can glance at and move on. Sometimes the short definitions aren't perfect. No worries! You can edit them for your own personal reference, and your changes are transmitted anonymously back to us so we can fix them for future versions of our applications. Every definition you help improve is one small step toward better scholarship for all philologists.
Parsimonious
Inflection is hard. Get help, read faster.
Whether you're in the school library or on the peaks of Mount Athos, sometimes you're in a hurry to find the entry for a difficult word form like bobus or legissent. Our Parsimonious lexical engine uses the magic of finite-state transduction to convert more or less any inflected Greek or Latin word, no matter how obscure or rare, into its dictionary form. You don't even need an Internet connection.
100% Unicode
Industry standard.
Gone are the dark ages of "Greek fonts," when putting Greek on a computer screen meant transcribing it using mangled Latin script and applying one of a dozen mutually incompatible typefaces to transmute it into Hellenic script. Our apps are built using Unicode, the international standard text interchange format. If you want to email some text or send it to a paper you're writing, it's as easy as copy and paste.
Get it!
You can download Lexiphanes today from the iTunes Store.
Support
It's a sad fact of life that any app can malfunction, and Lexiphanes is no exception. But don't panic! First, check out the Bug Bottle to see if your issue's been reported by someone else. There might already be a fix in the works or a way for you to get around it. If you've been genuinely blessed with the misfortune of encountering a heretofore-unknown problem, drop it in the Bug Bottle and I'll get right on it. I try to answer most new bug reports in 1 business day, but do bear in mind that I'm easily distracted and may not gratify you instantly.
