These slim volumes are a joy to read precisely for the reasons given in the article: minimal textual flourish, old-fashioned translations, green and red colors,

These slim volumes are a joy to read precisely for the reasons given in the article: minimal textual flourish, old-fashioned translations, green and red colors, etc. as well their enormous breadth. I still remember the joy when my wife gifted me Procopius's On Buildings (https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL343/1940/volume.xml https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL343/1940/volume.xml many years ago (and the guilty delight in reading his Anecdota later on: talk about an un-bowdlerized translation!). When you hold one, you feel you are a classicist, a feeling that cannot be easily described. The only bad thing about the Loeb volumes are their price, they are generally $25-$30, which is steep for such small books. If I had a ton of money I would commission similar volumes subsidized to $10 max. For the starving student currently the only alternative is the Web, e.g. Textkit (https://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?t=70592 https://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?t=70...) and Perseus (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman&redirect=true http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe...)