How long does it take to read A Greek-English Lexicon?
Based on the German Work of Francis Passow
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow
A Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow takes about 32 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 32 hours 34 minutes
A long haul
First published 1843. 1,776 pages, about 488,400 words.
66 days (about 10 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 54 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 32 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 20 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 148 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This edition combines the text of the ninth edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon with an extensively revised and expanded Supplement. The Supplement is the culmination of thirteen years of research and constitutes a full revision of the previous 1968 Supplement. Containing over 20,000 entries, the Supplement includes coverage of words and forms from papyri and inscriptions discovered up to the present day. Entries in the Supplement also incorporate Linear B forms for the first time, extending the Lexicon's time span back to 1200 BC.
Subjects: Classical dictionaries, Dictionaries, English, Greek, lexicon, Engels
