'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); "Lesbia" (1786); "Septimius and Acme" (1788)] ... he had studied Catullus closely as a schoolboy ... '
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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in secondhand schooltexts of Ovid, Juvenal and Catullus: though he knew no Latin beyond the Mass, the English notes offered plenty of background on the filthy loves of gods and goddesses".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Barclay Print: Book
