The '''Collection Budé''', or the '''Collection des Universités de France''', is a series of books comprising the
Greek and
Latin classics up to the middle of the
6th century. It is published by
Les Belles Lettres, and is sponsored by the
Association Guillaume Budé.
Each title of the series includes an introduction, notes and a
critical apparatus, as well as a facing-page
French translation, comparable to the
Loeb Classical Library in the English-speaking world. The Greek authors in the series can be recognized by a yellow cover on which
Athena's
Little Owl can be seen, the Latin ones by a red one where one finds a she-wolf reminiscent of the
Capitoline Wolf.
The first Budé volume,
Plato's ''
Hippias Mineur'', was published in
1920. Soon afterwards appeared the first Latin work of the series, namely
Lucretius' ''
De rerum natura''. More than 800 volumes of the series have been published, with the Greek authors outnumbering the Latin ones. Both
pagan authors and
Church Fathers are included.

A collection of Latin authors of the Budé series
External links
★ Listing of titles:
Greek series (
by genre),
Latin series (
by genre)
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Qu'est-ce qu'un "Budé"?