Our latest free books give-away, open to all worldwide. This time it's 8 books from the last 200 years, and 8 people will be drawn to pick their choice. Retweet this and you're in for the random draw on Sunday 11 October. Proper books these. Details to follow over next few hours!

And the final addition, five much-loved volumes on Greek and Latin prose composition: Sidgwick's Greek Prose Composition (repr. 1936), along with the answer key (c.1900), Nairn's Latin Prose Composition (1925), Nixon's Parallel Extracts in English and Latin (amazing book, 1876), and Melvin's Latin Exercises and Idioms (repr., 1873). Learn to write like your favourite ancient...

Draw of four names at 7pm GMT tonight. Pictures and descriptions if the 54 books and pamphlets in the 15 tweets following the one below. Raffle open to all! 📚📚📚

Having passed a thousand retweets, we will, as promised, add a fourth name and add a few more books tomorrow: 1st name chooses 20, 2nd 12, 3rd 10, and 4th the rest. Good luck!

And here some Latin texts: four early volumes of the Oxford Classical Text series (Cicero's Letters, 1900s, from the library of Victor Ehrenberg); Mynors' Catullus OCT; Hermes' (!) Teubner of Seneca's moral treatises; and a Teubner slice of Pliny's Natural History (Books 33-7).

More Latin literature: a commentary on Ovid's Tristia 4, itself all written in Latin (De Jonge, 1951); Collinge on the Structure of Horace's Odes (1961, damaged spine); Quinn's Critical Description of the Aeneid (1968); and the 1st vol of Teuffel's History of Latin Lit (1890, German!).

Or how about a Lucretius commentary starter-pack? Cyril Bailey's momentous commentary on the poem, here just the second half (Bks 4-6), either a first edition of 1947 or a 2015 reprint (you choose!), along with the small but solid commentaries on Books 1 and 3 by James Duff Duff!

48 hours to go to the draw! 50-odd items must go (and will be posted worldwide for free). Just retweet the message below before 7pm GMT Sunday!

What I love about Fedeli's great commentary on the four books of Propertius' poems (1980-2015) is that they have the (almost unique?) quirk of each volume appearing through an entirely different publisher (Italian, English and German). Bizarre but bibliophilically joyful.

Draw 7pm GMT Sunday. If it gets over 1000 retweets will add another ten books and draw a fourth winner.

And two solid works on Latin literature: J.E. Sandys's commentary on Cicero's Orator (1885) and W.M. Lindsay's Early Latin Verse (1922), both first editions, the latter from the hallowed halls of Newnham College.

Some volumes on Roman history and literature now: Henry Nettleship's Lectures and Essays, Garnsey and Saller's Roman Empire (once owned by the Hellenist Richard Hunter), Duff on Roman Satire, and the newest book of the lot: Pascal Hughes's Short History of Ancient Rome (2025).

For further details of the books (a few described each day), check the replies:

Now for a big-but-little encyclopedia: Der Kleine Pauly, the 5-vol abridgment of the mega Pauly Wissowa, issued in 1964-75. This set is from the library of the great Greek historian P.J. Rhodes.