Index librorum scriptorum inscriptionum ex quibus exempla afferuntur
The Index is intended to enable all users of the Thesaurus to identify and locate every cited passage. Its abbreviations have been adopted by a large number of publications in the field of classical philology. As an additional benefit, the Index provides a concise overview of nearly all extant Latin texts from antiquity, both literary and non-literary. It may therefore prove useful even when consulted independently of the Thesaurus itself.
The first edition of the Index was published in 1904 under general editor F. Vollmer. The previous online HTML version, released in 2017, was based on the revised printed edition of 1990, edited by C. G. van Leijenhorst and D. Krömer. It was regularly updated until 2022 to incorporate newly available texts and changes in the abbreviations used for citing works (the latest updates will remain available as a PDF also in the future in the Addenda Indici).
The new digital Index is the first outcome of the collaboration between the BAdW and Sapienza Università di Roma (PIs: Michela Rosellini and Elena Spangenberg Yanes). New features include full-text search (case-insensitive and u/v-insensitive), the possibility of restricting searches to specific columns, and chronological ordering. In addition, the entire Index has undergone a thorough revision: it now includes numerous authoritative editions published between 1990 and 2025, updated citation forms, newly added texts, and revised information on authors and works reflecting current scholarly research.
Users wishing to reproduce the small-cap formatting in their own work may use the following macro to convert capital letters in the names of ancient authors into small capitals (text file).