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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, beginning, indeed, to feel myself at home in the "Tenedo...	John Mitchel	Livy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...'	Thomas Green	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'In the evening read Livy - p.385 2nd vol. - 1/2 1200p in 17 days desultory reading.' [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the fines...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Empe...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ad Urbe Condita [probably]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ad Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ad Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - S finishes Livy (p920 vol 3.) & 1/2 past 12 at night...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ad Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'	Mary Godwin	Livy	Ab Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'	Mary Shelley	Livy	Ab Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'	Mary Shelley	Livy	Ab Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'	Mary Shelley	Livy	Ab Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'	Mary Shelley	Livy	Ab Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'	Mary Shelley	Livy	Ab Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.	Mary Shelley	Livy	Ab Urbe Condita	Print: Book

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