Okay /lit/ which are the best dictionaries for Latin and

For a general paperback Latin dictionary that's not too big to carry around, Lockwood-Smith is fine.

It's missing some of the stranger words, though, and it has no late Latin vocabulary at all.

This is really the only one I use by hand, if I want a more nuanced translation I check Perseus' word tool, which has the complete LSJ.

LSJ and Smith have always been more than enough for me unless I'm reading something medieval with strange vocabulary (plenty of medieval stuff is more-or-less classical).

For Greek, the Autenrieth is really good for Homer, and I use the intermediate Liddell-Scott for Attic, and I have a moldy old NT dictionary for koine.

I don't know what's best but these have served me well enough.

You might want to consider University of Chicago's Logeion project: http://logeion.uchicago.edu

It gives you a single point of access to a host of dictionaries that cover medieval Latin as well as classical Latin (Lewis and Short) and Greek (LSJ). It's free and convenient, and there's an app for iOS devices - it works offline.

Your goal, though, should be to read until you can read without a dictionary. Start on easy, fun reads like the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri or Seneca's Suasoriae and Controversiae. Work up to harder stuff like Quintilian's Declamationes Maiores and Apuleius (hint, there's more there than the Metamorphoses).

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Use google we're not your sales advice team

Wiktionary.

Will even retrieve conjugated/declined forms for you.

Thank you guys.