Greek Reference Database Creator

April 24, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

This program creates the SQLite database used in the Greek Reference app for Android.

This repository is hosted on git.linskey.org and mirrored on GitHub.

Dependencies

  • SQLite3
  • Apache Ant (for compilation)

Compilation

Run ant from the project's root directory to build the JAR.

Usage

java -jar grdbc.jar [option]

Options:
-a       Create all databases
-l       Create lexicon database
-g       Create grammar database

Third-Party Libraries

This program uses the following third-party libraries, distributed with this repository in the lib directory. Thanks to their authors for making their work available.

Texts

This project includes the text of An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott. Text provided by Perseus Digital Library, with funding from The Annenberg CPB/Project. Original version available for viewing and download at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/. I have made a number of corrections to the original text.

For convenience, a copy of the text with the typographical corrections applied in this repository, sans whitespace changes, may be obtained from a separate repository.

The project also includes the text of Overview of Greek Syntax, by Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox. Text provided by Perseus Digital Library, with funding from The Annenberg CPB/Project. Original version available for viewing and download at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/.

The above texts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the LICENSE file for this project's license and the licenses of the third-party resources included in this repository.