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Demosthenes : speeches
'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad. Translate Latin Speeches of Demosthenes.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Demosthenes : unknown
'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Demosthenes : Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur Holmes
Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905; May 12 1918 (at Welcombe). He notes the dates when Macaulay read his own copy of Demosthenes and says of the reading in 1837: "The last time in 2 days". In 1902: "Certainly Holmes is a marvellous scholar" but in 1918: "Holmes writes of oratory like a pedant, narrow, sceptical and critical, - who never heard a fine speech in his life."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book
Demosthenes : Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Olynthiacs
Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the difficulty of the text, e.g.: "All the same, Demosthenes is tough reading: far more difficult to me than Herodotus and Plato, or the ordinary narrative of Thucydides, let alone Xenophon." On p.1: "The Olynthiacs were the first Demosthenes I read, in prefect room at Harrow, about 1853."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book
Demosthenes : in Midiam
Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to read ...The marks on the outer margin are copied from his Dindorf edition." MS dates of reading: April 13 1917 and Jan 16 1923. "Finished --- on the 30th Jan 1923 - the day on which a more exulted culprit than Midias was brought to account. How these masterpieces grow upon one's appreciation at each reading! I am now just halfway between 84 and 85; - nearly 70 years since I read the Midias for the first time." P.125: "Macaulay gave the the Meidias to read while I was at Harrow. His choice of books which he lent me while at school is significant. The Meidias, the Gorgias, the Plutus of Aristophanes, Quintus Curtius, Dialogues of the Dead of Lucian. When I was preparing for the Gregory Scholarship examination he gave me Juvenal with a translation on the opposite side."
