Evidence: | MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "May 28 1917 Welcombe The most interesting military story I ever read, as told by the hero of it. If Pharsalia had gone the other way the Kaiser and the Czar would now be called "Pompey". An anonymous piece has the MS note: "This is far and away the worst Latin I have ever read of the great Ciceronian age of prose. The text is mortally corrupt; but besides that, the style is detestable. And yet I read it with interest." In this Sir George echoes Macaulay's comment on the same piece: "It is dreadfully corrupt." |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 28 May 1917 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Stratford upon Avon county: Warwickshire specific address: Welcombe |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | George Otto Trevelyan |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 20 Jul 1838 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Historian and statesman |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Julius Caesar |
Title: | Opera omnia |
Genre: | Classics, History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | London: Valpy, 1819 (4v. Delphin classics) |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 22681 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | MS note in book cited below, |
Citation: | MS note in book cited below, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22681, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
I have not transcribed all the MS notes in this book. |
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