| Evidence: | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter]. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 May 1837 and 31 Dec 1839 | ||||||||||
| Country: | India | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Calcutta | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Historian and critic |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | India |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Plato |
| Title: | Gorgias |
| Genre: | Classics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | The edition published in Frankfort, 1602, with a parallel Latin translation by Marsilius Ficinus |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 1629 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
| Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
| Title: | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 437 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 437, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1629, accessed: 24 May 2013 | |
| This entry records Macaulay's later experience of reading the Gorgias, while a government official in Calcutta. |
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