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Record 3488

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin literature. Strangely enough, I have come across it here. It is in Ovid ("Tristia" IX. 10.51)
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Until: 15 Feb 1897
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: Mentone
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:R.E. Prothero
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Editor of the Quarterly Review
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ovid
Title: Tristia IV
Genre: Classics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3488  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: R.E. Prothero
  Title: Correspondence from Prothero to John Murray
  Location: National Library of Scotland, John Murray Archive
  Call no: Acc.12604 NRR Transit Folder 125 (b)
  Page/folio: n/a

Citation: R.E. Prothero, Correspondence from Prothero to John Murray National Library of Scotland, John Murray Archive, p. Acc.12604 NRR Transit Folder 125 (b), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3488, accessed: 29 March 2024

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