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Lucian

 

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Lucian : unknown

'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

  

Lucian : 

Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as I had done reading Latin. By the timeI began with Lucian, my mind was a little recovered and I construed Greek.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister      Print: Book

  

Lucian : 

'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill      Print: Book

  

Lucian : [satirical / philosophical dialogues]

'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'.

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

  

Lucian : [unknown]

'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.

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

  

Lucian : unknown

'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.

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

  

Lucian : [unknown]

'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'

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

  

Lucian : [unknown]

'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'

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

  

Lucian : [unknown]

'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'

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

  

Lucian : [unknown]

'Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]'

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

  

Lucian : [unknown]

'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'

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

 

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