I wanted to quote Speusippus’ funeral speech where he explained why Plato was son of Apollo, but I just spent the past 20 minutes looking for original sources AND IT IS TOO DAMN DIFFICULT.
The classics are astonishingly inaccessible from a technical point of view. There are great efforts like the Perseus project and Loeb. But so much work remains. An incredible amount of material is not translated into English. And, when it is, it can be incredibly difficult to get the original.
While, as the titles indicate, the objective is to be able to find all usages of particular words, this does have the side-effect of preserving the texts themselves, although neither project necessarily works as a good means of being able to access the texts directly.
The classics are astonishingly inaccessible from a technical point of view. There are great efforts like the Perseus project and Loeb. But so much work remains. An incredible amount of material is not translated into English. And, when it is, it can be incredibly difficult to get the original.