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'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

Terence : [Plays]

'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Andria

'finish the Andria of Terence & Guy Mannering'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Eunuchus

'Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Heautontimorumenos

'Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : [plays]

'Read Montaigne and Terence'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Adelphi

'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Adelphi

'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Phormio

'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Phormio

'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Hecyra

'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Terence : Hecyra

'Finish Terence'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

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