search_translations

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RETURNS QUOTABLE PASSAGES (page-level snippets + citation URLs), matched by KEYWORD/term. PICK THIS to find a quote or textual evidence on a topic across the whole library. → If the modern word won't literally appear in historical texts, use search_concept (matches by meaning); to list which BOOKS cover a topic use search_library; to dig inside one known book use search_within_book; if the user named an author/work, get_book first (its AI summary is usually the right first read). Query tips: single distinctive terms ("memory palace", "wax tablet") work best; multi-word natural-English queries ("unity of the intellect") may return fewer results because matching is term-based, not phrase-based. Each snippet has a snippet_type — "translation"/"ocr" means it is a verbatim extract from the source text; "summary" means it is AI-generated description (do not quote those as the author's words). Response includes total_matches, returned, and offset for pagination. Cross-cultural tip: for pre-modern or non-Western topics, search source-tradition vocabulary rather than modern English terms — e.g. for seminal economy search "jing" or "bindu" or "istimnāʾ", not "semen retention"; for female homoeroticism search "tribade" or "sahq", not "lesbian". The corpus is indexed via period translations that use tradition-internal terminology.