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Cebes : Dialogue

Solved my doubts, & read half Cebes?s dialogue before I went to bed. It is rather a pleasing than a profound performance, - & on this account as well as on account of the extreme facility of the Greek, it can bear fast reading.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Cebes : Tablet of Cebes

Diary entry, 17 August 1831: “Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus Clouds - & imitation of yesterday thunderstorm; and fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!”

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Book

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